ARTIST BIO

Tyson Fisher is a professional nature photographer based out of Portland Oregon. He spends over six months out of the year exploring and photographing remote Wilderness Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. He hikes, runs and climbs nearly a thousand miles each year in search of dramatic landscapes and magical light. He currently uses a combination of digital and film cameras for his explorations.

When he was young he backpacked for a week with the Boy Scouts into Northeast Oregon's Wallowa Mountains. This initial introduction to the mountains started him down the adventurous path he walks today. His first love, however, was not hiking and photography, but Cross Country and Track. After running for a year at the University of Portland he made the decision to leave school and travel the world. He bought his first professional SLR camera and left home for a year, traveling from New Zealand and Australia to Indonesia, Nepal and Turkey. Upon returning home, he resumed his running but limited it to mountain trails where he scouted the landscape for future photo opportunities. In 2003 he embarked on another big trip, this time with the goal of hiking and photographing the entire length of the 2655 mile Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail stretching from Mexico to Canada. Despite having to leave the trail 100 miles south of the Canadian border due to an injury, the five month journey was a rich, fulfilling and challenging experience that greatly influenced his photographic career. Many of the images from that hike have been used to help illustrate the first comprehensive U.S. Forest Service map series of the entire trail.

During the renewed eruptive phase of Mount St. Helen's (2004-2007), Tyson made some of the most dramatic post-1980 images ever recorded of the mountain. His image, documenting the spectacular and unexpected eruption on the evening of March 8th 2005 - the biggest since the 1980 blast - remains, what he considers, one of his best ever photographs. This image, as well as many others, grace the pages of a new book by Sierra Press, "The Rebirth of Mount St. Helen's." Most recently, one of Tyson's newest St. Helens images, "Fire Mountain," took first place in the International Conservation Photography Awards, landscape category.

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