Proposed by: Woodside-Atherton Garden Club, Zone XII

Robert Glenn Ketchum uses his artistry behind the camera to save the landscape, not just capture its beauty. For over forty years, his imagery and books have helped define contemporary photography while at the same time addressing critical national environmental issues. He has taken his lens to the degraded, the polluted, the threatened places in our country and shown the extraordinary beauty of nature, but also the damage that man has wrought. Using his art to rescue places, like Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River Valley, and the No Pebble Mine Campaign to protect the Bristol Bay Salmon Fishery, was revolutionary. Robert’s inspirational advocacy work led to the creation of the International League of Conservation Photographers. The iconic exhibit American Photographers and the National Parks was the first time a curator had demonstrated the impact of American landscape photography on the development of the national park system. His impactful and influential work can be seen in the Smithsonian among many other museums. Audubon magazine named him as one of the 100 people “who shaped the environmental movement of the 20th Century.”