On View Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 75

CARLTON WARD JR.: Florida Wild Carlton Ward Jr. sees cultural heritage and the natural environment as two of society’s greatest yet most threatened resources. Each photograph is “a window of discovery, celebrating the little-known people, places, and wildlife that make up the Florida Wildlife Corridor,” wrote Carlton Ward Jr. “Subjects include ancient pine forests, deep river swamps, freshwater springs, surprising wildlife, mysterious ravines, wild rivers, and forgotten coastlines…in the millions of acres of ‘Florida Wild,’ where panthers still stalk deer through the forests and black bears forage among palmettos as old as bristlecone pines.” Carlton Ward Jr.’s work is exhibited widely and has appeared in such publications as Audubon, Smithsonian, Geo, Nature Conservancy, and National Geographic. With training in ecology and photojournalism, Carlton advocates combing art with science to