James Balog, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American photographer
Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1952
Place of Birth: Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession: photographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About James Balog
- James Balog (pronounced BAY-log; born July 15, 1952) sometimes referred to as Jim Balog, is an American photographer whose work explores the relationship between humans and nature.
- 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. In January 2016, Balog began production on a feature-length documentary film, exploring the environmental effects of the Anthropocene.
- Released as The Human Element, the film debuted in April 2018, co-presented by Green Film Fest, part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.Balog has received many awards for his work.
- In 1996 he became the first photographer ever commissioned by the U.S.
- Postal Service to create a full set of stamps.
- He is the author of seven books, including Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report (2009), Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest (2004), and Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife (1990), described as a conceptual breakthrough in nature photography.He is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
- He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Suzanne, and two daughters.
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