"Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change" Coffee Table Book

• Prize
  Bronze in Book/Nature
• Photographer
  Rob Badger and Nita Winter, United States
• Date of Photograph
  2019
• Studio
  Winterbadger Press
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.winterbadger.com

Art and science are seamlessly woven into a coffee table book featuring 190 floral portraits/landscapes made over 27 years, and essays by 16 scientists/nature writers. From Death Valley Nat’l Park to high mountain passes, images were made in the field using our “natural light” studio. We carefully photograph live flowers with black or white backgrounds to create images that look like they were made in a studio setting. Rob created new, unique techniques: Contact Series -flowers gently touch the lens; Wrapped Series -flowers enfolded in black or white fabric to complement their geometric forms.

• Biography
  Photographers Rob Badger & Nita Winter: life partners & creative collaborators for over 3 decades. They discovered & fell in love with California's spectacular wildflower blooms in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, inspiring their 27 year journey photographing wildflowers throughout the West. 2016: their documentary art project became a traveling exhibit, “Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change” with a new companion book. Featured in NBC TV, Time, Mother Jones & Sierra magazines, New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle & Los Angeles Times.
• Awards
  Rob and Nita 2019 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards Gold Medal: Bill Fisher First Time Book Award - Non Fiction Silver Medal: Art and Photography and Silver Medal: Nature and Environment Rob: 2014 Black and White Spider Awards: Honorable mention 2009 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards, BBC and British Museum of Natural History, “Wild Places” Highly Commended 2009 Avanti Award: $10,000 Individual Artist Grant, Joseph and Frances Brucia Foundation, 2008 Best of Show: “The Good, Bad & The Ugly,” Environmental Issues Exhibit, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado 2007 Best of Show: “Culinary Delights” Artisans Gallery, San Rafael CA. 1996 GRAPHIS Photo Annual Award (international magazine of design and communication), For Antarctica Series 1994 Best in Journalism, Environmental Series: GRAPHIS Photo Annual Award 1994 Best in Color Landscapes, Maine Photographic Workshops Print Competition 1992 Award of Excellence, Communication Arts Photography Annual 1991 Kodak Scholarship to "The Environmentally Concerned Photographer," Santa Fe Workshops, Santa Fe, NM Nita 1994 Communication Arts - Editorial 1976 - 1991 Nikon Int’l Assoc, Business Communicators Fellowship: Main Photographic Workshops, Rockport ME