Adventurer Photographers Share their Work at National Geographic
Step behind the camera with amazing nature photographers at National Geographic’s Masters of Photography series in Washington DC.
The series includes four National Geographic journalist/photographers who visited and photographed three unique destinations:
- Vietnam’s mammoth Hang Ken cave system, considered to be the largest cave system on the planet. Adventurist, climber, scuba diver and caver Carsten Peter has photographed some of the world’s most scary and extreme locations including descending into active volcanoes, crossing the Sahara dessert on the back of a camel, to scuba diving in a glacier cave on Mont Blanc in the Alps. His latest adventure was to descend into the massive Hang Ken caves. With 20-foot sheets of limestone stalagmites the park covers 300+ square miles of caves, caverns and underground rivers. The length of some passageways are more than a mile and with huge caverns, many large enough to park a jumbo jet inside. One cavern was described to be large enough to hold a full square block of Manhattan, complete with buildings as tall as 40-stories. Peter will be sharing some of his adventure stories as well as images for this mostly unexplored cave system.
- In the lecture, Hidden Alaska, National Geographic veteran shutter bug Michael Melford will share photos and discuss his visit to Bristol Bay, Alaska on the Bering Sea. There he joined both native fishermen as well as some of the local bears during the annual sockeye and king salmon breeding. He also documented some of the region’s pristine nature sites along with the juxtaposition of the possible mining activities that may dominate the region to take advantage of the enormous copper and gold deposits of the area.
- Exploring the native cultures of Africa spanning over 30 years photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have published 14 books about their travels through 40 countries and documenting more than 150 African cultures. Their latest book, Dinka: Legendary Cattle Keepers of Sudan, documents a three decade study of the vanishing cattle herding clans in southern Sudan. During the second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) thousands of Dinka were slaughtered by government troops. Beckwith and Fisher will be speaking and sharing photographs of the Dinka’s culture, ceremonies and daily life.
Adventurers, photographers, and lovers of exotic cultures lands should be thrilled to learn about these exciting adventurer photographers.
Masters of Photography — National Geographic, Grosvenor Auditorium, 1600 M Street, NW, Washington, DC (map)
Dates and Times – Tuesday, February 22, Tuesday, April 5, and Wednesday, May 11, 2011, at 7:30 pm.
Tickets – $48.00 for the series, or $18.00 per event. Tickets are available online.
Nearest Metro Subway Station - Farragut West – Orange line, then a two-block walk, or use the DC Circulator.
Parking – Metered street and paid garage parking is available in the area.
