"In Balance," February 2013

My conversation with author Eric Toensmeier appeared in World Ark magazine. Go here to see the Q & A, images, and video shot in this fascinating garden, and how it relates to the work of the global relief project Heifer Project International. Go here to see the superior tablet edition.

"Food is Art is Food," Fall 2012

These three images were hung at The Art Garden in Shelburne Falls, MA, as part of the community exhibit "Food is Art is Food." These previously were on view in Santa Fe at the New Mexico State Capital as part of a similarly themed show in 2005.

"Cowscapes," June 2012

Two images of mine were on view in Brattleboro for "Cowscapes," a special show at the Vermont Center for Photography celebrating the annual Strolling of the Heifers event, Vermont's peaceful answer to the running of the bulls in Spain.

New York Times to World Ark

My interview with the founder of ARCHIVE about his group's efforts to create healthy housing in Haiti and Cameroon is in the Spring 2012 issue of World Ark, here.

I was in San Francisco in April 2012 to help celebrate a person whose work I've covered for Grist.org over the past few years, Evgenia Chirikova. She was being honored with a Goldman Environmental Prize, the 'green Nobel.' It was my privilege to take this Russian forest activist and her husband out of the city to Muir Woods for an afternoon to see some truly magnificent trees, ancient redwoods. My email postcard about that trip was later published by Andy Revkin of the New York Times, here.

Published by National Geographic, YaleE360, and Northern Woodlands

My investigative report and images from Sweden on the problems with logging of the boreal forests there were published by Yale Environment 360 in December 2011, here, and the story was picked up by National Geographic later in the month. Their online news division asked me to write something about it for their site, which appeared here, and that got a lot more eyeballs on the issue. A huge honor.

An image from the Hunter/Gatherer series appears as a 2-page spread for an article on the culture of hunting in the Winter 2011 issue of Northern Woodlands magazine. See the online version here.

Terrain.org

A gallery of images from the Ghost Nests Project is part of Terrain.org's Summer 2011 issue. The series imagines species of extinct or future animals' habitat - the nest among the budding ferns is a favorite.

Elmers, February 2-28, 2011
Ashfield, MA

Images from Poland, see below.

Hosmer Gallery, January 4-31, 2011
Northampton, MA

Erik exhibited images from the photo assignment in Poland for Heifer Project International's magazine World Ark (see below for more and a link to the article), alongside the work of two other documentary photographers.

Nashawannuck Gallery, October 2010
Easthampton, MA

Erik showed images from Poland for this Gallery's celebration of Polish Heritage Month, October 2010

Solo exhibit, Vermont Center for Photography, January 8-31, 2010
49 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT
www.vcphoto.org

Erik exhibited images from a 2008 photo assignment in Poland for Heifer Project International's magazine World Ark (see below for a link to the article). This solo show featured dozens of enlargements captured with black & white film and also some color digital images. See the online gallery for a sampling.

feature story, Earth Island Journal
Winter 2009/2010 issue
Erik's feature story on the Bialowieza Primeval Forest, an enormous old growth forest inhabited by bison, wolves, lynx, and more, that sprawls across a wide swath of Belarus and Poland appears in the new issue of Earth Island Journal, an international magazine of conservation issues based in Berkeley, CA. View the article here. Despite its unique status as the last and largest such forest in Europe, its health is in decline and only a band of dedicated activists has been able to keep it from being totally degraded. An inspiring story.

cover story, World Ark magazine
Summer 2009 issue of Heifer Project International's magazine
Erik's cover story on the work of Heifer Project - Poland appeared in World Ark accompanied by his photos in glorious black and white. The cover also features an image from the trip, and can be viewed here in 'page turner' format: a beautiful digital version of the actual magazine.

slide show & talk
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:30pm - 111 Herter Hall, UMASS Amherst, Amherst, MA
Erik showed slides from his trip to Poland as part of the Slavic Studies Department's ongoing evening lecture series.

gallery talk
July 12, 2009 at 3 pm - Robert Floyd Photo Gallery & Learning Center, 2 East Street at
Route 10/College Hwy, Southampton,MA
Erik gave a gallery talk at the Robert Floyd Photo Gallery & Learning Center, sharing and discussing images from his photo assignment in Poland for Heifer Project International.

heifer international in poland
May 21, 2009 at 7pm - River Valley Market, 330 North King Street, Northampton, MA 01060
Erik showed images he took while on assignment in Poland for Heifer Project International.

vermont center for photography
new works
Friday February 6th through March 1, 2009 - at the Vermont Center for Photography
49 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT
New works by Erik and other VCP members were on exhibit for the month of February.

heifer project international slide show
January 22, 2009 at 8pm - Elmer's Store, 396 Main Street, Ashfield, MA 01330
Erik showed slides of images he recently took while on assignment in Poland for Heifer Project International for his story on heritage breeds of farm animals that Heifer Project is working to save from extinction. Small farms throughout Poland are struggling to get out from under more conventional ways of raising animals, and these forgotten breeds of cows, geese, chickens, pigs, and horses have numerous qualities superior to those of their more commercial counterparts, especially in sustainable farm systems like the ones Erik visited.

the sun magazine
The Sun is a non-profit, ad-free magazine that publishes an eclectic mix of personal essays, fiction, interviews, poetry, and photographs. I had images published in the July 2007 issue (view here) and also the December 2007 issue.

vermont center for photography
small works, big ideas
In December 2006, I contributed the following images to the Vermont Center for Photography's members' annual 'small works show,' in Brattleboro:
latchis theatre gallery
For the month of August 2006, I showed 18 images (including a few brand new ones) in the main theater of The Latchis on Main Street in Brattleboro, VT.

robert floyd gallery
From mid-December 2005 to the end of January '06, I hung five signature black and white pieces in the 'Exhibiting Members' section of the Robert Floyd Photo Gallery in Southampton, MA.

santa fe food show
Four of my photographs were on display for two months in the fall of 2005 as part of The Food Show: Politics, Pleasure and Pain at the State Capitol building in Santa Fe. The exhibit featured photography, sculpture and video. Here are the images:

the sun magazine
This photograph (pdf) was published on the first page of the The Sun's September 2005 Readers Write section.