Paul Nicklen is a Canadian photographer, film-maker, author and

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Early life

Paul Nicklen was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada. By the mid-seventies, Paul's family - made up of his parents, a teacher and mechanic, and his brother, moved to the tiny

Inuit Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwe ...

town of

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second-largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is (slightly smal ...

in Canada’s Arctic Circle. The Nicklen family was one of four non-Inuit families in the area, as mentioned in his book Born To Ice.

Career

Since the beginning of his career in conservation photography, Nicklen has quickly become one of the most renowned Canadian photographers for ''

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'' Magazine, and has published eleven stories for ''National Geographic''. Nicklen is a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP). He has written several books. Major exhibits of his work include ''Extreme Exposure'' at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, California in 2009 and most recently, he opened the Paul Nicklen Gallery in Soho, New York City, New York from April 2017 to June 2018 as a space for conservationist photographers and other artists to participate in the fine art scene. In 2011, Nicklen was a speaker at TED2011. In 2014, Nicklen co-founded an organization that uses visual storytelling and photography to further the cause of ocean conservation with modern conservation photography pioneer Cristina Mittermeier. The foundation is a non-profit.

Awards

Nicklen has been awarded the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the World Press Photo for Photojournalism." He has also received awards from

Pictures of the Year International Pictures of the Year International (POYi) is a professional development program for visual journalism, visual journalists run on a non-profit basis by the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. POYi began as an a ...

Communication Arts ''Communication Arts'' (acronym: CA) is the largest international trade journal of visual communication. Founded in 1959 by Richard Coyne and Robert Blanchard, the magazine's coverage includes graphic design, advertising, photography, illustra ...

, and the Natural Resources Defense Council BioGems Visionary Award. *World Press Photo First Prize, Nature Stories 2003 *World Press Photo First Prize, Nature Stories 2006 *World Press Photo Second prize, Nature Stories 2007 *World Press Photo Third Prize, Nature Stories 2007 *World Press Photo First Prize, Nature Stories 2009 *World Press Photo First Prize, Nature Stories 2010 *Award of Excellence, Pictures of the Year International Competition 2010 *Wildlife Photographer of the Year, BBC Wildlife and Natural History Museum 2012 *World Press Photo First Prize, Nature Stories 2013 *Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada *Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Publications

* * * * ''Photographing Wild - Techniques of a National Geographic photographer (eBook)'' - 2016 *

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicklen, Paul University of Victoria alumni Canadian photographers Living people National Geographic photographers Members of the Order of Canada Year of birth missing (living people)