ASSIGNMENTS:

Gary Braasch is one of the most experienced editorial and documentary assignment photographers for natural history, science, and travel. His repeat clients include Life, Smithsonian, Natural History, Discover, Audubon, and NY Times Magazine. He successfully completed a long term project on climate change in 22 nations on all continents, resulting in the book Earth Under Fire, published by University of California Press. Please call or email about your assignment needs.

MOST RECENT ASSIGNMENT: Copenhagen COP-15 international climate talks, an assignment for photos and text for World View of Global Warming and the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Press, including coverage of how the media covered this important meeting.

Gary Braasch Environmental Photography
Post Office Box 1465
Portland Oregon 97207 USA

email: gary@braaschphotography.com

Phone 503.699.6666 mobile 503.860.1228

A sampling of recent assignments

Hoh River, Washington. Three day assignment for Western Rivers Conservancy, 2009, to document 10 land purchases along this wild river, a major salmon stream, as it flows out from Olympic National Park to the Pacific Ocean.

Threatened spotted owls. Endangered species and field science in the Western forests, three day assignment for Smithsonian magazine, published January 2009.
Photo also used as the Smithsonian Magazine Holiday card, December 2009.

John Day River, Oregon, landscape and wildlife photography assignment for Western Rivers Conservancy, 2008. Use in brochures and for fundraising.

Lake Mead, Arizona, and Hoover Dam as level of lake drops in drought. Photograph for Norton Publishing and GHG Photos used as chapter opener in new climate book, 2009.

Extensive travel 2004-5 with specific targets in Europe, the Arctic, China, and Asia for World View of Global Warming and the book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World. Here wind turbines in The Netherlands used as chapter opener.

Assignments for aerial and landscape photography on Alaska's Northwest slope for Arctic Coalition and Alaska Wilderness League, 2003-5

Time Magazine, Canadian Edition, November 24, 2003  "Saving the Earth"  double-truck, image picked up from previous assignment for Foundation for Deep Ecology.

Scientific American   "Fishy Business" (Coral reefs & aquarium fish)  July 2001

Life Magazine "Coming Back to Life" (Mount St. Helens volcano recovery) May 2000

Discover Magazine  "Hanging by a Thread"  (Hawaii endangered species)  February 2000

Audubon Magazine   "All things great and even microscopic" (Bio diversity, Great Smoky Mountains)  May-June  2000

Discover Magazine   "Antarctica's Hot Spot"
(Climate change)  November 1999

Life Magazine  "Universe in a Puddle" (Tide pool ecology) April  1998

Audubon Magazine   "The Oil Pressure Rises" (Alaska tundra)  November  1997