Artist: Amy Gulick
www.amygulick.com
Biography
A firm believer in the power of visual stories to influence public opinion, Amy Gulick uses her photography and writing to champion nature for the benefit of all life on Earth.
She is the recipient of the Daniel Housberg Wilderness Image Award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation, the Voice of the Wild Award from the Alaska Wilderness League, a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, and both the Mission Award and Philip Hyde Grant Award from the North American Nature Photography Association.
She is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Fellow with The Safina Center, and a columnist for Outdoor Photographer magazine. Her work has appeared in Audubon, Smithsonian, National Wildlife, The New Republic, and other publications.
Her award-winning books include The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind and Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest.
Artist Statement
There are moments in time when certain events change the course of history: the end of slavery, women’s right to vote, and putting a man on the moon come to mind. We are standing right now in one of those moments. What’s our moonshot? I’m going to call it our salmonshot. Let this be the moment that we achieve the greatest salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest. Let this be the moment that we rebuild our relationships with these iconic fish. Let this be the moment that our kids and grandkids can look to and say, “Thank you for bringing the salmon back for us.” Our window of opportunity is now. We can do this. This is our moment. This is our salmonshot.