NANPA Career and Service Awards
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202511 entries
Drew Hamilton
No award
Alton Marsh
Frank Gallagher
202311 entries
Boyd Norton
Wendy Shattil
No award
Jeff Vanuga
Daniel J. Cox (Arctic Documentary Project)
Isabelle Edwards
John Lock
Jennifer Warner
Ted Moreno
202110 entries
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Emerging Photographer Award
Tom Blagden (The Grand Canyon) and Krista Schlyer (Ay Mariposa/The Borderlands Project)
Ron Rosenstock and Art Wolfe
Bruce Haley
20196 entries
Richard Day, Susan Day, Sue Flood, and Lou Nettelhorst
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Emerging Photographer Award
Clay Bolt (Beautiful Bees: Protecting North America’s Native Bees)
Kathy Adams Clark
2018–20191 entries
No award
2007–20191 entries
Award inactive
20178 entries
Jack Dykinga and John Nuhn
Christian Ziegler
Kathy Clark, Michael Francis, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Mark Lukes, and Linda Helm
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Vision Award
Melissa Groo
Michael Forsberg (Platte Basin Time Lapse) and Carlton Ward, Jr., Mallory Dimmit and Joe Guthrie (Florida Wildlife Corridor)
Suzi Eszterhas and Jerry Monkman
Cindy Miller Hopkins
Charles (Chuckie) Luzier and Canon
20161 entries
No award
20158 entries
Frans Lanting
Steve Winter
Michele Westmorland
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Vision Award
Krista Schlyer
Niall Benvie and Clay Bolt (Meet Your Neighbours)
No award
Eric Bowles
Hunt’s Photo
20142 entries
No award
No award
20138 entries
Art Wolfe
Daniel Cox
Richard Halperin and Nancy Rotenberg
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Vision Award
Sandesh Kadur
James Balog (Chasing Ice)
Carlton Ward
Niki Barrie and Sharon Cohen-Powers
Epson
20123 entries
Flip Nicklin
No award
No award
20117 entries
Robert Dunne
Jack Dykinga
Rich Reid
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Vision Award
Jenny Ross
Jerry Bauer
Juli Wilcox
John Martin / Images for Conservation Fund
20107 entries
Sebastião Salgado
Joel Sartore
Kevin Fitz Patrick and Mary Ann McDonald
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Vision Award
Ian McAllister
Cristina Mittermeier
Arthur Morris and Francine Butler
Adobe
20097 entries
George Schaller and Paul Caponigro
Tim Laman
Tom Blagden, John Nuhn and Rob Sheppard
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Vision Award
Christian Ziegler
Michael Forsberg
Tom Carlisle
Blue Earth Alliance
20087 entries
Michael and Patricia Fogden, and Bates Littlehales
James Balog
Danita Delimont, Kathy Moran, and Tom Vezo
- Trailblazer AwardPresented as Vision Award
Florian Schulz
Amy Gulick
Mark Lukes
Lowepro
20076 entries
Dewitt Jones and Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Kevin Schafer
Nancy Carrizales, Arthur Morris, and Kennan Ward
Tim Gallagher and Bobby Harrison
Alice Robertson
BBC Wildlife Magazine
20067 entries
Les Line and Pat O’Hara
Patricio Robles Gil
Boyd Norton, Bonnie Stutski, and Tom Till
Ray Pfortner
Ray Pfortner
Kevin Fitz Patrick
LightHawk
20057 entries
Clyde Butcher and John Sexton
Tui De Roy
Connie Toops and Tom Ulrich
Pat Wadecki
Barbara Jividen
Rob Sheppard
Nature’s Best Photography Magazine
20047 entries
Ann Guilfoyle and Russ Kinne
Norbert Wu
Phyllis Greenberg, Tom and Pat Leeson, C.C. Lockwood, and Ray Pfortner
Karen Hollingsworth
Jennifer Weinberg
Lou Nettelhorst
The Nature Conservancy
20037 entries
Galen Rowell, Bradford Washburn, Fred Breummer, and Karl Maslowski
Gary Braasch
Natalie Fobes, Bill Fortney, Bill Jaynes, Carl Sams, and Jean Stoick
Bill Silliker
Niki Barrie
Bernard P. Friel and Deborah Free
Hasselblad USA
20027 entries
Jim Brandenburg
Michael “Nick” Nichols
Kathleen Norris Cook, Gerry Ellis, George Lepp, and Joe McDonald
George Lepp
Kevin Fitz Patrick
John Lock and Joe & Mary Ann McDonald
Nikon
20017 entries
Freeman Patterson
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Ralph Clevenger, Jeff Foott, Dan Kraseman, Frans Lanting, David Metz, and Gary Zahm
Stephen Maka
Deborah Free
Wendy Shattil
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
20007 entries
Erwin and Peggy Bauer
Tom Mangelsen
Niki Barrie, Gary Braasch, Jim Brandenburg, Karen Hollingsworth, Bob Rozinski, and Wendy Shattil
Jim Clark
Darrell Gulin
John Nuhn
Fuji Photo Film USA
19996 entries
Robert Sisson
Frans Lanting
DeWitt Jones, Evelyn Kloepper, Galen Rowell, Leonard Lee Rue III, and Larry West
Patricio Robles Gil
Rick Zuegel
National Wildlife Federation – Publications Division
19986 entries
Leonard Lee Rue, III
Art Wolfe
Erwin and Peggy Bauer, Ann Guilfoyle, Freeman Patterson, Roger Tory Peterson (posthumously), and Robert Sisson
Jerry Bowman and Francine Butler
Laura Hagar
Canon USA and National Geographic Society
19975 entries
The Muench Family
John Shaw
Mark J. Lukes
Connie Toops
Eastman Kodak Company
19962 entries
Philip Hyde, David Brower, and Jane Kinne
No award
19952 entries
Roger Tory Peterson
Outdoor Photographer Magazine
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