March 2011
Middlebury College Admissions Videos Online
Middlebury College has now launched the multimedia snapshots of college life which were co-produced by Fieldworks Pictures. They are already receiving great feedback: "Those are SO well done! I love the mix between still and video. The video is awesome….Low depth of field shots. Beautiful. I would love to produce these types of pieces.”
Watch the videos
March 2011
Patagonia Sin Represas Exhibit
Exhibit on display at the Chilean tour of the Adventure Film Festival and premier of the film 180 South.
Friday 18 - Saturday 19 March, 6-11PM - Corporación Cultural de Las Condes, Av. Apoquindo 6570, Santiago
View the images
March 2011
Bridget features in Women and Water Campaign
The Nature Conservancy has launched a new campaign called 'Women and Water', exploring the lives of women who are fighting for the conservation and sustainable use of our earth's most precious liquid. One of Bridget's images was chosen for the print piece promoting the campaign and she also features in the campaign's multimedia piece.
Check out the print and multimedia pieces
March 2011
New Site and Blog Now Live!
After weeks of editing, Bridget's new site and blog are up and running. The sites provide a snapshot of Bridget's work to date, details on upcoming workshops and more!
Visit Bridget's website
September 2010
FROM THE LAND Maine Farms at Work Published
The popular exhibit-turned-book is now on sale at Maine Farmland Trust (MFT) and at bookstores throughout Maine. Text by MFT Executive Director and Maine State Legislator John Piotti, foreword by Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and images by Bridget Besaw.
Visit Maine Farmland Trust
May 2010
Patagonia to be Drowned by Dams?
National Geographic News online published Patagonia RAVE dam story with five of Bridget's images.
Visit National Geographic online
May 2010
The Heart of a River
Bridget made the cover image and feature photographs for a story about Maine's Penobscot River dam removals and restoration. 'An innovative agreement is preserving power production while reviving an ecosystem and culture.' Photography by Bridget Besaw, text by Madeline Bodin.
Go to Summer 2010 Nature Conservancy Magazine
April 2010
Beautiful, Historic and Sustainable
Peak harvest season begins a one year project for a historic Chilean winery that will culminate in a book and exhibit in Santiago in 2011. Founded in 1856, Cousiño Macul is the only 19th century winery founded in Chile that still exists today, seven generations later, in the hands of the original founding family.
Visit Cousiño Macul
February 2010
Patagonia RAVE
Bridget travels to the Aysen region of Patagonia to participate in an International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) RAVE (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) to help raise awareness about the threat of hydropower dams on Patagonia's pristine Baker and Pascua Rivers.
Learn more about the ILCP Patagonia RAVE
January 2010
Land Conservation in Action
New multimedia online. An inside look at the work of the historic coastal conservation organization founded 40 years ago by the Rockefeller family. Images and multimedia produced by Bridget's new Green Media Team.
View Maine Coast Heritage Trust multimedia stories
November 2009
Carbon Equation
Does preventing deforestation equal greater protection from climate change? Bridget made the cover image and feature photographs for a story about The Nature Conservancy's work and research on carbon sequestration in California, Bolivia and Indonesia. Photography by Bridget Besaw, text by Jane Braxton Little.
Go to Winter 2009 Nature Conservancy Magazine
November 2009
People in Nature: Conservation Photojournalism
Maine Media Workshops announces 2010 workshops! Among them: Bridget and Nature Conservancy Magazine Editor Melissa Ryan teach a workshop on working with environmental organizations to envision and produce meaningful photography projects. 19-25 September 2010.
Learn more and sign up at Maine Media Workshops
May 2009
SALMON COUNTRY Project Released
We now produce multimedia! Bridget is thrilled to be the documentarian and executive producer of ten news stories for The Nature Conservancy's website. This project is also featured in Nature Conservancy Magazine as: 'Salmon Country', a photo essay about salmon recovery strategies in the Pacific Northwest, and 'The Source' about how the proposed Pebble mine may threaten the fabled Bristol Bay salmon fishery.
Access magazine and multimedia stories in the Summer 2009 Nature Conservancy Magazine
April 2009
International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP)
Bridget was recently accepted as an associate member of the ILCP and plans to participate in their next RAVE in Yucatan, Mexico, in October 2009.
Visit ILCP
February 2009
EXPOSURE Calgary Banff Photography Festival
Artist talk on large-scale photography projects for environmental organizations. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 7:30PM Boris Roubakine Theatre, University of Calgary.
Visit EXPOSURE
January 2009
Book Review in Winter 2009 Nature Conservancy Magazine
Bridget's self-published book Wildness Within, Wildness Without gets a plug "...perhaps Besaw's images will not only preserve a moment in time when Maine is still somewhat wild but also encourage others to keep it that way."
Read Book Review
November 2008
Leica Camera Company Annual Meeting of the Leica Historical Society
Artist presentation on specializing in environmental photography and working with Leica's new M8 for the Maine Farmland Trust (MFT) project. Saturday 1 November 2008, Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky
JUST PRINTED: The new Leica M8 promotional brochure illustrated exclusively with Bridget's MFT images.
Visit Leica
October 2008
Slideshow Presentation at Kindle: the Northern New England Bioneers Conference
Visit North New England Bioneers
September 2008
WILDNESS WITHIN WILDNESS WITHOUT Exploring Maine's Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Exhibit
Chewonki Foundation Gallery, September 2008 - February 2009.
Visit Chewonki
August 2008
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Interview
TNC website interview of Bridget to help promote Wildness Within exhibit at Domaine Gallery, which TNC partially sponsored. "Her tools - light, color and perspective - are much different from ours. But Besaw's work shows that people can be part of the land without destroying it. In that way, our intentions are wholly aligned."
Read interview
July 2008
Exploring with Thoreau - The Book Tour!
Bridget and Tom Slayton, author of the recently published 'Searching for Thoreau' will present photographs and readings following in the footsteps of the great naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau in northern Maine. The program is free and the public is invited to attend.
Monday 21 July, 12PM - The Nature Conservancy sponsored event at Frontier Caf, 14 Maine St, Brunswick
Monday 21 July, 6PM - Books Etc, 38 Exchange St, Portland
Tuesday 22 July, 12PM - Maine Historical Society, 289 Congress St, Portland
July 2008
Experience It, Protect It: Maine's Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail
In partnership with The Nature Conservancy.
Friday 25 July, 5-8PM - Gala Opening
Saturday 26 July 11AM-2PM - Conservation Conversation and artist appearance, Domaine Gallery, 223 Commercial Street, Portland
July 2008
Maine Farms at Work Exhibit
A year of photography for Maine Farmland Trust.
Wednesday 30 July 5-7PM - Reception. Show on display through October 2008
June 2008
Bangor Metro Magazine photo feature on Bridget's Maine Woods images
"Bridget Besaw uses her extensive photographic wiles for a sacred purpose: She is out to save the world's wild and fragile places...Her case is made for preserving and enjoying - for in virtually all of Besaw's masterful photos in the book, nearly 70 of them, the land and landscapes are being savored by people. Besaw shows us that mankind's footprint does not need to be heavy and her work inspires stewardship more than these same scenes ever could without their human subjects."
View Photo Feature
May 2008
The Nature Conservancy Website Photo of the Month
Bridget's image of a Ecuadorian chagra - a horseman who rounds up cattle - taken in the high Andean grasslands of Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador, was named Nature Conservancy's Photo of the Month.
View the photo
May 2008
Wildest Country 2nd Edition: Exploring Thoreau's Maine
Back in print by popular demand, this revised edition follows the famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau's sojourns in Maine and offers today's travellers modern-day excursions. By J. Parker Huber, photography by Bridget Besaw. Published by AMC.
Buy the book
April 2008
WILDNESS WITHING WILDNESS WITHOUT Exploring Maine's Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail now in stores
The new printing is now carried at bookstores throughout Maine, at LL Bean and Patagonia retail stores and at Patagonia online.
Buy the book
December 2007
Sunday Chat - Maine Sunday Telegraph
"As of this writing, photographer Bridget Besaw is traveling around the Andes on horseback on assignment for The Nature Conservancy. If she weren't taking photographs in the mountains of South America, Besaw very likely would be doing the same in the North Woods of Maine."
Read the interview in the Portland Press Herald