A conversation about craft, entrepreneurship and adventure with National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson and the Yampa Valley Photographers Club

Local photographer Scott Bideau moderates a Q&A via Skype with this globetrotting photographer who manages worldwide adventures based out of Lindbsorg, Kansas, a town that's even smaller than Steamboat Springs and about the same distance as the Yampa Valley from an international airport. In addition to taking audience questions about the craft of photography, Richardson will talk about the ongoing challenges of running a business from a small town (think location-neutral), what it takes to cover "everyday life" while traveling the world as a journalist, and his witness to the global agricultural obstacles in feeding a hungry planet.

About Jim Richardson
Jim Richardson is a photographer for National Geographic Magazine and a contributing editor for its sister publication, TRAVELER Magazine.  He has photographed more than 30 stories for National Geographic. His work takes him around the world, from the tops of volcanic peaks to below the surface of swamps and wetlands. ABC News Nightline produced a story about the long process of assembling a National Geographic coverage by following Richardson in the field and at National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C.

In addition to his color photography, Richardson has built a distinguished body of black-and-white documentary work about rural Kansas life.  His audiovisual presentation, “Reflections From a Wide Spot in the Road,” has toured internationally.  A 22-page story about his 30 years of photographing life in the north central Kansas town of Cuba, population 230, was published in National Geographic and featured twice by CBS News Sunday Morning.  His 1979 study of adolescence, “High School USA,” is now considered a photo essay classic and is used in college classrooms.

This program is made possible by the Yampa Valley Photographers Club.