You Love To Hike + You Want To Take Great Photos
Do both with a two-time national park artist-in-resident
You Love To Hike + You Want To Take Great Photos
Do both with a two-time national park artist-in-resident
About Your Guide: Benjamin Rusnak
Mission: As an artist-in-residence at both Zion and Capitol Reef National Parks, my goal is to help you make the most of your love of photography and the great outdoors. We need wilderness to remember the wild places within ourselves. Showing others the beauty that we have discovered completes the loop. Further, we are dedicated to preserving and protecting the wild places we have the honor to experience.
Artist-in-Residence at Capitol Reef National Park
Exhibit of National Park Residency Photos
Background: I'm an advertising, magazine, humanitarian and fine art photographer, whose heart resides in the American West. During my national park residencies I worked on a deeply personal project about the tension between preserving and experiencing wild places in the environment and ourselves. For 20 years I have documented poverty in the developing world for international relief and development agencies. Prior to that, I was a newspaper photojournalist. My award-winning work has been recognized and exhibited internationally, including the prestigious Gordon Parks Award and InterAction’s Effective Assistance Humanitarian Photography Award, among many other honors. I've led photo workshops and presented lectures for a range of national and international photography organizations and at a half-dozen universities, with audiences up to 500 people. I've given dozens of media interviews and led a National Geographic student expedition.