James Balog
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 James Balog facts

• Since the early 1980s Balog has photographed such subjects as endangered animals, North America’s old-growth forests, and 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, and the project is featured in the 2009 NOVA documentary Extreme Ice as well as the 75-minute film Chasing Ice, which premiered in January 2012
• Balog’s book Ice: Portraits of the World’s Vanishing Glaciers summarizes the work of the Extreme Ice Survey through 2012
• Balog has received many awards for his work, including the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal, a 2010 Heinz Award, the Duke University LEAF Award, the Same Rose '58 and Julie Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism at Dickinson College, the Aspen Institute's Visual Arts & Design Award, the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure, the Leica Medal of Excellence, and the International League of Conservation Photographers League Award
• He was the North American Nature Photography Association's Outstanding Photographer of the Year in 2008 and PhotoMedia’s Person of the Year for 2011
• In 1996 he became the first photographer ever commissioned by the U
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