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ABOUT ME
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have lived and worked in India, Bangladesh, Venezuela and Guatemala and have
traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America in
my 32 year career with the United Nations. Since retirement, I have been
devoting myself full time to photography which has been an avocation since high
school. For me, photography has always been a means of communication and
connection with others and a way to share my sense of wonder and delight with
the beauty of our natural and built environment. Having worked for over a decade
at the UN to promote the ideas of sustainable development, I am deeply concerned
about the growing threat to the beauty and health of our natural environment and
how the built environment impacts upon it. Often, when we have been thoughtful,
there is a harmony between what we have built and what nature has given us. More
often, you can see the "scars of development" on the natural landscape wherever
you go in the world. Lyndon Johnson said, "If future generations are to
remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than
the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was
in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Nature and landscape
photographers strive to give people a "glimpse of the world as it was in the
beginning," but unless we take seriously the impacts of our lifestyles on the
environment, photographs may be the only way that future generations will get a
glimpse of what it was like before development took its toll.
Lowell L. Flanders |
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