Jack Dykinga Explained

Jack Dykinga
Birth Date:2 January 1943
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois
Known For:Photography
Website:http://www.dykinga.com/

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

Works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners . Elizabeth A. Brennan . Elizabeth C. Clarage . . 1573561118 . 1999 . Page 206, #400 at Google Books.
    • "Feature Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
    • Web site: Jack Dykinga . Current TV (current.com) . January 24, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101120112545/http://current.com/tags/89850005_jack-dykinga/ . November 20, 2010 .
    • News: Jack Dykinga . Tucson Morning Blend . August 18, 2010 . January 24, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110717111921/http://www.tucsonmorningblend.com/videos/100978749.html . July 17, 2011 . dead .
  3. Web site: Villareal . Narciso Thomas . Research Paper on Photojournalist Jack Dykinga . JRN 280 Blog for Narciso Thomas Villarreal (villarrealjrn280.blogspot.com) . November 3, 2010 . January 24, 2011.
  4. Jack Dykinga (2017), A photographer's Life, Rocky Nook, p 46
  5. Web site: Jack Dykinga » iLCP . June 19, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725054715/http://www.ilcp.com/photographers/jack-dykinga . July 25, 2011 . dead .
  6. Web site: Jack Dykinga . National Geographic Photography (photography.nationalgeographic.com) . January 24, 2011 . March 9, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120309151022/http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/photographer-jack-dykinga.html . dead .
  7. Web site: Artists: Jack Dykinga . The G2 Gallery (theg2gallery.com) . January 24, 2011.
  8. Web site: Rappaport, Robert . Jack Dykinga . Video on Demand – Video Shorts . Arizona Public Media (ondemand.azpm.org) . September 23, 2009 . January 24, 2011.
  9. Web site: Jack Dykinga, Sedona PhotoFest 2010 Master-in-Residence Photographer . Sedonaphotofest.com . January 24, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100529054940/http://www.sedonaphotofest.com/dykinga.html . May 29, 2010 .
  10. News: Guardian: 40 greatest Nature Photographs . . April 22, 2010 . May 9, 2014.
  11. Web site: NANPA Awards and Past Winners. May 9, 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140512091207/http://www.nanpa.org/nanpa_awards.php. May 12, 2014.
  12. Web site: 2017 NANPA Award Winners – NANPA®.

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