Joseph Holmes
I have been photographing wild landscapes, mainly in color, for thirty-five years. I am a native of Berkeley, California, and hold a degree in the Conservation of Natural Resources from UC Berkeley.
I have spent a great deal of time in the high country of the Sierra and other wildlands of the U.S. and spent four years as a seasonal backcountry researcher in Yosemite during the 1970's. I have extensive river-rafting experience, on some twenty rivers from Maine to Alaska. For most of the last twenty years, the camera outfit that I have schlepped all over creation has weighed in at thirty-four pounds.
For thirty years I have been pursuing the ultimate color photographic print making process, building darkrooms, a unique, large-format additive lamphouse for the best possible Cibachrome quality, and more recently software, and have mastered several difficult printmaking processes along the way.
My publications include many posters, the series of Last Wildlands calendars, produced with David Brower at Friends of the Earth for nine years, and three books, including two of the most respected books of landscape photography: Joseph Holmes - Natural Light and Canyons of the Colorado.
I am the author of ColorBlind Prove it! software for monitor calibration with my patented visual calibration system and the inventor and patent holder of the Small Gamut method of printing monochrome images. Through many years of tenacious study and experimentation and enjoying the teaching of some of the creators of color management, I have become one of the few but growing number of masters of color management for fine photography.