Garth’s photography tells stories of environmental
issues, threatened wilderness regions, devastation, and the impacts on
indigenous peoples. His work has appeared in many of the world’s leading
publications, including Time Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, International
Wildlife, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Canadian Geographic, and GEO
He has been invited to give many international
presentations on environmental and indigenous rights issues. I have addressed
the European Parliament, Canadian Senate, major corporations and business
leaders, and given public slideshow tours throughout Canada, the U.S., Europe,
and Japan.
His recent
images from the boreal region of Canada have helped lead to significant
victories and large new protected areas in the Northwest Territories, Quebec,
and Ontario. In 2008, his work from the boreal and the Alberta Tar Sands
received major awards at the Prix de la Photographie Paris, the International
Photography Awards, and from the Centre For Fine Art Photography.
Garth Lenz is a
Fellow of the International League Of Conservation Photographers. One of only
sixty photographers worldwide to receive this honor.
