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Volume 65, Number 9
March, 2009
Stacking up Literacy
March is Literacy Awareness Month
Also: Members begin to use the newFacebook page to promote club events
 
Jim Richardson of Natio
Jim Richardson, an award winningphotojournalist for National Geo-graphic Magazine and a nativeKansan, was the speaker at theTopeka Rotary club on Thursday,March 19, 2009.Richardson, who currently lives inLindsborg, KS, is known for his de-piction of small town life, particu-larly life in Cuba, KS, population230, which he documented over thirty years.Richardson shared many of hisphotos and stories throughoutthe world, including his series onsoil and light pollution.
―My challenge photographing
this story paralleled the greater challenge faced by all humans:to understand that this humblestuff beneath our feet is thevery stuff that makes life onearth what it is. The power ofsoil to formulate the building blocks of life is
miraculous,‖ he says on his website.
 Richardson began using a camera as ayoungster on his parents' wheat and dairyfarm north of Belleville, in north central Kansas.He began experimenting with his father's sec-ond-hand box camera, photographing theworld of the farmstead for display at the NorthCentral Kansas Free Fair in Republic County,Kansas. In 1971, he abandoned his psychologymajor at Kansas State University to begin aphoto internship at the
Topeka Capital- Journal
. In the intervening 15 years, Richard-son's work was published in many major publi-cations, ranging from
Life
and
Time
to
SportsIllustrated
and
The New York Times.
In 1986 heleft a job at
The Denver Post
to begin a full-time freelance career.In honor of his work documenting Kansas lifeand for his landscape essay on the state's FlintHills in the April 2007 edition of
National Geo-graphic Magazine
, Richardson was named2008 "Kansan of the Year" by the Native Sons
 Jim Richardson, a native Kansan and well known photo documentarian,was the guest speaker at the Topeka Rotary Club.
 
al Geographic Magazine
and Daughters of Kansas.Richardson and his wife Kathy returned to their na-tive Kansas in 1997, having lived 18 years in Denver.They now live in Lindsborg, Kansas, where they oper-ate Small World: A Gallery of Arts and Ideas on thetown's Main Street.For more information on Jim Richardson and hiswork, visitwww.jimrichardsonphotography.com which includes both his work and his new blogwhere he shares the back stories, including many ofthe technical issues and the stories of the people hemet along the way.
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