Ice Canyon Photography BY James Balog

James Balog (pronounced BAY-log; born July 15, 1952) is an American photographer whose work revolves around the relationship between humans and nature. Since the early 1980s Balog has re-defined environmental photography, whether his subject is endangered animals, North America’s old-growth forests, or polar ice. His work aims to combine insights from art and science to produce innovative, dynamic and sometimes shocking interpretations of our changing world.

Balog’s best-known project explores the impact of climate change on the world’s glaciers. In 2007 he initiated the Extreme Ice Survey, the most wide-ranging ground-based photographic glacier study ever conducted. National Geographic magazine showcased Balog's ice work in June 2007 and June 2010,[3] and the project is featured in the 2009 NOVA documentary Extreme Ice as well as the feature-length film Chasing Ice, which premiered at the Sundance film festival in Utah on January 23, 2012.[4] Balog’s book Ice: Portraits of the World’s Vanishing Glaciers (Rizzoli, 2012) summarizes the work of the Extreme Ice Survey through 2012.