image
 
ABOUT ME
I 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




VIEW GALLERY

CURRENT EXHIBIT


image
image