-Life long friendship with Eliot Porter help form his ideas about photography and how it could be used to promote change in the world.
-Ketchum and Michael Wilder pioneered Cibachrome colour printmaking in the early 1970's.
-Among first photographers to explore print scale.
-Started out as a photographer taking photos of 60's era rock bands like The Door, Cream and Jimi Hendrix.
-Perhaps most recognized for his work on the Tongass in Alaska, here he helped in the passing of the Tongass Timber Reform Bill in 1990. This created 5 new wildness areas and protected one million acres of the largest temperate rain forest in the world.
-Quote from centerforabetterlife.com describing his environmental achievements "I wanted my work to be political, but I never wanted to be in a position where it's a lament over something already lost. I always wanted to be out in front of an issue so that the work, instead of being about sorrowful regret, can be about cutting edge advocacy."
-Quote from centerforabetterlife.com about his work "My work has always been my personal response as an artist to the real world circumstances that concern me. I have understood from the earliest days of my career that we all exist because our habitat supports us; so I chose to use my work in support of that habitat."
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