Thinking Globally, Seeing Locally
In his day to day work Dennis Dimick originates and orchestrates environmental photojournalism projects for National Geographic Magazine. As the magazine’s environment editor and a long time picture editor, he works with photographers to produce documentary photography coverages of major issues and ideas like climate change, the energy challenge, global freshwater issues, and the impact of a rising world population. He is currently working with colleagues on a 2014 story series on the future of food in a world where nine billion people will need to eat by 2050.
He has been in love with photography for more than 40 years, and worked as a newspaper photographer and picture editor before joining National Geographic in 1980. He has taught documentary photojournalism at the annual Missouri Photo Workshop for 17 years, and has received many award for his picture editing from the annual Pictures of the Year Competition. in 2013 received the Sprague Memorial Award from the National Press Photographers Association for his service to photojournalism.
He is a professional photojournalist, but his own photography is strictly avocation. Often carrying a camera, always carrying a phone with a camera, he is constantly on the lookout for interesting and unusual picture possibilities right in his own community where most of his pictures are taken. He loves to take pictures from airplane windows. He is always looking for an interesting picture of trees in Arlington where he lives. He can occasionally be seen photographing swimming meets at the local pool, 4th of July parades, and has been known to photograph ultimate frisbee and other sporting events. He has rediscovered the simplicity and elegance of pictures made with a simple 50mm lens. As a photographer he tries to find beauty in the everyday, in the common, and the local. He firmly believes that photographic possibilities abound in our
daily lives, and his presentation will focus on these ideas and others inspired by the beauty in our daily lives.
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