Interviewed in Carlsbad Patch

If you haven’t yet discovered the wonderfully localized new media, Carlsbad Patch, do check it out. Especially in such a diverse county, it is refreshing to have a community journalism focus in our own town. Journalist Megan Pincus Kajitani recently interviewed me about my work with Greener Photography; she tells an engaging story. In her words, from her article Flash of Green-ius on Carlsbad Patch:

Did you know that your photographs—like the landfill-crowding disposable diapers we often hear about—will never, ever biodegrade?  “Two hundred years from now, the images on your photographs may have faded, but the plastic-based paper they are printed on will remain,” explains Carlsbad-based professional photographer, Dawn Tacker.

This surprising fact is one of many shockers concerning the large carbon footprint of photography that Tacker discovered as she strived to make her own family portrait business more environmentally friendly several years ago.

Discovering the damage mass-produced photographs and photographic equipment are doing to the planet—along with realizing the utter silence in her profession about this issue—led Tacker to co-found the first eco-conscious professional association for photographers worldwide, Greener Photography, in 2008.

Tacker and her co-founder, New Hampshire-based wedding photographer Thea Dodds, now have a thriving professional organization with more than 150 members on four continents, who are all “greener” certified through an intensive process the partners created. They also have a 1,000-subscriber newsletter and the first and only clearinghouse of information on greener photography in the entire industry.

Read the entire article here. Thanks to Megan, for the wonderful and painless interview!