In 1941, legendary photographer Ansel Adams began working for the US Department of the Interior to shoot large format photos of National Parks and other notable locations out in the great outdoors.
Guess what? The same job opening has appeared again: the National Parks Service is looking to hire a black-and-white large format photographer, and the salary is up to $100,000 per year.
A new job listing at USAJOBS shows that the National Park Service of the Department Of The Interior is looking for someone to fill an opening with the title “Photographer, GS-1060-11/12.”
The full time job has a salary range of $63,722 to $99,296 per year, and is based out of Washington, DC. It requires a great deal of traveling (up to 5 to 10 nights per month, the listing says), and is only available to US citizens.
In terms of job duties, the photographer will be tasked with shooting large-format documentary photos for the Library of Congress, developing photographic guidelines and standards, producing exhibition quality prints, evaluating photographic submissions, and making presentations about the photo collection.
Applications will be accepted until December 15th, 2015
Alternative Cameras is about images made with any plastic, toy,
pinhole or homemade camera, plastic lens on a traditional modern
camera, Lensbaby, camera obscura - just about any non-traditional
camera or lens, film or digital. For this exhibition, images from
unadulterated iPhones are excluded.
Susan Burnstine is an award-winning fine art and commercial
photographer originally from Chicago, now based in Los Angeles. Susan is
represented in galleries across the world, widely published throughout
the globe, teaches workshops internationally and has also written for
several photography magazines, including a monthly column for Black and
White Photography Magazine (UK).
Burnstine is one of the few photographers today avidly pursuing
alternative processes to create an idiosyncratic and deeply personal
visual landscape. Initially, she sought to find a way to portray her
dream-like visions entirely in-camera, rather than with post-processing
digital manipulations. To achieve this, she has created twenty-three
handmade film cameras and lenses that are frequently unpredictable and
technically challenging. The cameras are primarily made out of plastic,
vintage camera parts, and random household objects, with single-element
lenses molded from plastic and rubber. Learning to overcome their
extensive optical limitations required Burnstine to rely on instinct
and intuition -- the same tools that are key when attempting to
interpret dreams.
