Outside Magazine blog coverage

Please check out a post that Mary Catherine O’Connor wrote about Daniel’s work on The Good Route blog at Outside Magazine. She highlights the hope that his upcoming PRP book will make an impact on world leaders at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen. Thanks, Mary.

direct link: http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2009/11/the-good-route-picturing-climate-change-at-cop15.html

-JN

ABC News Person of the Week (!!!)

This morning, ABC News announced that Daniel will be designated their “Person of the Week” on the natonal news broadcast, ABC World News with Charles Gibson. Typically, it is the final segment of the broadcast and is a few minutes in length. We haven’t seen it yet, of course, but understand that it will include video footage that was shot of Daniel working in Indonesia earlier this year on the final portion of his commission/grant from the Prince’s Rainforest Project, And, of course, there will also be some of Daniel’s photos in the segment.

All in all, it’s very exciting news.

ABC World News with Charles Gibson airs live at 6:30 Eastern/5:30 Central time and delayed at 5:30 in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, but check your local listings here to double-check.

After it airs, it should be on their website here. I’ll add a direct link to the story shortly afterwards.

UPDATE: direct link to the video is now available: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=9142032 . You might need to update your browser’s Flash player.

-JN

Field trip to NYC show

Earlier this week, I made a stop to look at the show of Daniel’s PRP photos at the Mercy Corps Action Center (MCAC) in lower Manhattan. And, yes, of course I took some photos.

Here is a view of the venue from the new-ish Irish Hunger Memorial, which now occupies the park formerly known as the Vesey Green:

As you enter the Action Center, you’ll see a wall panel of nine prints.

Turn around and take another couple of steps and you’ll see this wall panel, with four composite prints out of six, displaying 26 different images. The bush-meat monkey head photo, lower left, is displayed at a convenient height for young kids; a staff member said this photo has left a strong impression on everyone – and is a favorite of teenage boys.

Further down the wall there is another wall panel of nine photos.

And finally, here’s a few more details from the show:

The photos will be displayed only for another nine days, it comes down off their walls after Nov. 15th until the end of November. If you’re in the NYC area, please try to make it down there to see the photos if you haven’t already. Thanks!

Here is a link about the show from the MCAC:

http://www.actioncenter.org/update/20091001/rainforest_exhibit

-JN

@ the ILCP & Wild9 in Yucatan

Daniel is currently participating in the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE) in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. With some cooperation from mother nature, he’ll be shooting aerial photos of rainforest destruction along the coast of the Yucatan.

You can follow the proceedings of the RAVE at their blog, here: http://ilcpblog.blogspot.com/

After the RAVE, Daniel will be attending the Wild9 Wildspeak symposium, in Merida, Mexico. On Nov. 9th, Daniel will present and participate in a panel discussion with Frans Lanting, Duilio Rodriguez, Paul Nicklen, and Carolina Hoyos on the the use of photojournalim in aid of conservation. During the afternoon of the 11th, he’ll be making a solo presentation, “Burning Issues: Tropical Rainforests,” about the photos that he shot for the PRP.

-JN

PRP online booklet is live

A very cool interactive version of a booklet using Daniel’s photos that was published by the Prince’s Rainforest Project is now completely online. It has sound, video, animation and a neat page-turning functionality that I’ve never seen before and is kind of fun to use, though if you don’t like it, you can just click on arrows to change pages, too.

It and more things regarding the PRP can be found at:

http://www.rainforestsos.org

-JN

NYC Exhibition of PRP photos

Daniel currently has a show of 26 photos from the Prince’s Rainforest Project at the Mercy Corps Action Center in New York City. Mercy Corps is in Battery Park City, at the northeast corner of River Terrace and Vesey Street (map), on the north side of Vesey Green.

The prints were made by Tyler Boley at Custom Digital here in Seattle. At 40″x30″, they look absolutely spectacular. Sustainably-produced sugar cane paper from Hahnemühle was used to make the prints. I can’t emphasize enough just how gorgeous these prints are.

http://www.actioncenter.org/update/20091001/rainforest_exhibit

It’ll be up on their walls until Nov. 15th. They’re open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday-Friday.

-JN

Another Kew Gardens exhibit link

A quick round of applause to Edmond Terakopian, a friend of Daniel’s, for putting together post on his blog about the Kew Gardens PRP exhibit opening. There’s a few pictures of the space, the big, gorgeous prints, some kind words about Daniel’s career, and even a neat little video interview of Daniel about some of the photos in it.

Thanks Edmond!

-JN

PRP Kew Gardens Exhibit

From now thru December 6th, Daniel has an exhibit at The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, of photographs that he was commissioned to shoot for the Prince’s Rainforest Project award he received from the Sony World Photography Awards. The exhibit, in the Nash Conservatory, gives viewers an introduction to the sights, sounds and even smells of tropical rainforests and their destruction in the Amazon, the Congo and Indonesia.

Here is a list of directions and transit options to visit the show and Gardens at.

The opening of the exhibit garnered quite a bit of press coverage , some of it linked below:

The Guardian

CNN

The Independent

The Sun (with a fantastically-awful, cringe-worthy pun-headline)

-JN

Become a fan on facebook

It’s been a big day for Daniel Beltrá on the web. Hold on to your hats, he now has both a blog and a facebook fan page. Become a fan by following the link.

-JN

Prince Charles awards Daniel Beltrá PRP prize

Here is a video, for those of you interested, of Prince Charles giving Daniel Beltrá the Prince’s Rainforest Project award at the Sony World Photography Awards in April of this year. As it happened, HRH wasn’t able to give the award in person at Cannes, but did meet with Daniel in person in London earlier.

-JN