Paul Lucas – Women in Landscape Photography
May 2024
When we think of landscape photography, photographers like Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter often come to mind. We may even think of early landscape photographs created by Carleton Watkins or more contemporary landscape images from photographers like Michael Kenna.
Women have been creating images almost as long as photography has existed. And we are familiar with many well know women photographers like Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke- White, Bernice Abbott, Dianne Arbus and Vivian Maier. However, women landscape photographers are typically not as well-known as the likes of Adams or Porter. Where are the women landscape photographers? Is there female perspective in a landscape photograph?
Women in Landscape Photography will briefly look at 6 women photographers who have devoted some of their creative efforts to landscape photography from more traditional landscape imagery to New Topography. The session will wrap up with a look over the horizon at some contemporary professional women landscape photographers.
About Paul Lucas
Paul Lucas is a Nature and Landscape photographer living in Lake County, Il. The image, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams inspired Paul to learn nature photography. He has studied with master photographers Will Clay, Allen Rokach, and Doug Beasely. Captivated by the work of Eliot Porter, Paul primarily works in color.
His work has been exhibited at the Morton Arboretum, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Heller Nature Center and online at Landscape Photography Magazine (UK).Paul was the Featured Artist in Issue 143 Landscape Photography Magazine and a featured photographer in the Full Frame section in Issue 144 Landscape Photography Magazine.
Paul has been teaching nature and landscape photography for 8 years. He started his photography teaching career in 2015 at the Morton Arboretum and is currently a photography instructor at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Lake County is his studio for Nature and Landscape photography. His images are inspired by the natural beauty of the woods found in Lake County and commanding Western shoreline of Lake Michigan. Paul’s specialty is in working with the abundant water found around Lake County. He believes in seeing with new eyes to capture the beauty of nature found close to home. Paul hopes his images encourage everyone to enjoy and conserve nature close to home and throughout the world. And he hopes to inspire a few students to pick up a camera and express their own unique creative vision of the world around them.
Recording: Paul Lucas – Women in Landscape Photography
