Jack Dykinga

Jack William Dykinga (born January 2, 1943) is an American photographer.^[1] For 1970 work with the Chicago Sun-Times he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography citing "dramatic and sensitive photographs at the Lincoln and Dixon State Schools for the Retarded in Illinois."^[2]

Career

Born in Chicago, Dykinga began his career at the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times before moving to Arizona, where he joined the Arizona Daily Star and taught at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College.^[3]

Dykinga left the Arizona Daily Star and photojournalism in 1985. Thanks to the support and inspiration of a friend, he started to work on a book about the Sonoran Desert.^[4] The publication of The Sonoran Desert launched his new career as a nature and conservation photographer.

Dykinga is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.^[5] His work appears in Arizona Highways and National Geographic.^[6] He shows at the G2 Gallery.^[7] He is on the board of the Sonoran Desert National Park Project.^[8]

In 2010, Dykinga was photographer in residence at Sedona Photofest.^[9]

Personal

Dykinga lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife Margaret Malley; they married in 1965.^[6]

He attended Riverside Brookfield High School.

Awards and honors

• 2010: "Stone Canyon" was selected as one of "40 Best Nature Photographs of all time" by the International League of Conservation Photographers^[10]
• 2011: Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year Award from the North American Nature Photography Association.^[11]
• 2017: Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Nature Photography Association.^[12]

Works

• Frog Mountain Blues, University of Arizona Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-8165-0929-4
• The Sonoran Desert H.N. Abrams, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8109-3824-3
• The Secret Forest, University of New Mexico Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8263-1403-1
• Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau Abrams, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8109-4468-8
• The Sierra Pinacate University of Arizona Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-8165-1777-0
• Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley, Harry N. Abrams, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8109-3238-8
• Large format nature photography, Amphoto Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8174-4157-9
• Jack Dykinga's Arizona, Westcliffe Publishers, 2004, ISBN 978-1-56579-499-3
• Images: Jack Dykinga's Grand Canyon, Arizona Highways, 2008, ISBN 978-1932082876
• Capture the Magic: Train Your Eye, Improve Your Photographic Composition, Rocky Nook Publishers, 2013, ISBN 978-1937538354
• A Photographer's Life, Rocky Nook Publishers, 2017, ISBN 978-1681980720

Gallery

• Photos by Jack Dykinga for the US Department of Agriculture
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  Teddy-bear Cholla at Tecolote Camp, El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
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  American bison
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  Female Mexican fruit fly
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  Severe soil erosion in a wheat field near Washington State University
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  Hereford twins produced at the ARS Range and Livestock Research Unit at Miles City, Montana

References

External links

• Official website
• "Interview transcript", Lew and Gail Steiger, Images of Arizona
• "Jack Dykinga: From Pulitzer to Pop-Up", Gordon White, Truck Camper Magazine May 19, 2009
• Jack W. Dykinga at Library of Congress, with 10 library catalog records

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