Style and Influences
Jim Brandenburg has established a certain style among nature photographers, notably in technique. In his over 25-year tenure with National Geographic, he traveled the world taking pictures for the magazine. On the projects, he found himself taking up to 300 rolls of film only to have a few dozen selected for the published articles. In 1994, feeling "increasingly dissatisfied" with his art, he undertook a personal project wherein he limited himself to take only one photograph per day between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. The resulting shots made up his book Chased by the Light, NorthWord Press 1998.
Listed among his influences are environmentalists such as Aldo Leopold and Sigurd F. Olson. Some personal influences include Jim Vance - publisher of the Worthington Daily Globe, Glenn Maxham - a photojournalist at the public television station where Brandenburg worked in college, and Art Aufderheide, who introduced him to the Inuit people of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
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