White Sands, New Mexico Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Ian Shive is an award-winning conservation photographer, author, educator, film producer and environmental advocate, recently recognized as the recipient of the Sierra Club's 2011 Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography. Ian regularly works as the lead assignment photographer for The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club and National Park Conservation Association with his imagery appearing in numerous publications around the world including National Geographic, Time, Ski, Travel Channel, The New York Times, US News & World Report, Popular Science, Men's Journal, Outside and hundreds of others. Often referred to as the leading chronicler of America's national parks today, Ian's book The National Parks: Our American Landscape has remained a best-selling photography book since 2009 and has helped shape diplomacy efforts around the world through his Wilderness Diplomacy initiative, currently underway in Afghanistan. In addition to being an active photographer, Ian is also the founder and CEO of Tandem Stills + Motion, Inc. (), one of the world's world's leading collections of licensable stock photographs and motion clips in the genres of environment, nature, travel, culture, adventure sports and healthy living lifestyles. When he is not running operations at Tandem or fulfilling an assignment, Ian shares his knowledge teaching Photojournalism and Advanced Photojournalism at the University of Southern California. He resides in Los Angeles.