Thursday, November 20
Desert: A Photographic Journey
Basing his career on celebration of the beauty and wisdom of the earth, Chris Noble is a photographer, writer, lecturer, and social activist, as well as veteran of over thirty expeditions to the most remote corners of the earth, including Everest, McKinley, Pumori, Ama Dablam, the jungles of Borneo, the Arctic, and remote regions of Bhutan and Burma (Myanmar).

Noble’s work has appeared in hundreds of publications including National Geographic, Outside, Life, Rolling Stone, and Newsweek. His photographs have been included in books such as
Exposure: The Best Photographs of Outside Magazine, Malaysia: Heart of Southeast Asia, and To the Summit. Eight of the images in this exhibit are selected from his book Escalante: The Best
Kind of Nothing, with text by Brooke Williams, published by the University of Arizona Press, which won honorable mention in the 2006 Utah book awards.

Noble served for more than a decade as the primary advertising photographer for The North Face, Inc. He has been a contributing editor at Powder and Outdoor Photographer Magazines as well as a featured speaker at the National Geographic Society in Washington DC and the Banff Mountain Book Festival in Alberta Canada, where his photographs are on permanent display at the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture.

Noble’s current work focuses on aiding the transition to a more compassionate and sustainable world.





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