Exhibit Honors Nature Conservancy

To celebrate its 50th anniversary this year, the Nature Conservancy asked 12 well-known photographers to create works for an exhibit that will travel around the nation and to Brazil and Japan. The photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann, Lee Friedlander, and William Wegman, were invited to visit a spot that the conservancy had helped to protect and record their reaction on film.

The exhibit, “Response to Place,” opened last week at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, and will be on display there until December 31.

The Conservancy says it has protected 12.5 million acres inside the United States since its founding in 1951, and 80 million in the rest of the world. Among the protected lands included in the 150-print exhibit: Pyramid Lake and Lahontan Valley Wetlands, in Nevada, photographed by Richard Misrach.

More information is available on the Conservancy’s Web site at http://nature.org.