Jack Dykinga

Jack William Dykinga (born January 2, 1943) is an American photographer. 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."

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.

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. 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. His work appears in Arizona Highways and National Geographic. He shows at the G2 Gallery. He is on the board of the Sonoran Desert National Park Project.

In 2010, Dykinga was photographer in residence at Sedona Photofest.

Personal Dykinga lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife Margaret Maley; they married in 1965.

He attended Riverside Brookfield High School.

Awards and honors 2010: "Stone Canyon" was selected as one of "40 Best Nature Photographs of all time" by the International League of Conservation Photographers 2011: Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year Award from the North American Nature Photography Association. 2017: Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Nature Photography Association.

Works Frog Mountain Blues, University of Arizona Press, 1987, The Sonoran Desert H.N. Abrams, 1992, The Secret Forest, University of New Mexico Press, 1993, Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau Abrams, 1996, The Sierra Pinacate University of Arizona Press, 1998, Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley, Harry N. Abrams, 1999, Large format nature photography, Amphoto Books, 2001, Jack Dykinga's Arizona, Westcliffe Publishers, 2004, Images: Jack Dykinga's Grand Canyon, Arizona Highways, 2008, Capture the Magic: Train Your Eye, Improve Your Photographic Composition, Rocky Nook Publishers, 2013, A Photographer's Life, Rocky Nook Publishers, 2017,

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