Fancy earning up to $100,000 working a job once filled by the inimitable Ansel Adams? The US Department of the Interior is looking to hire a photographer to follow in the master’s footsteps.
The Tetons and the Snake River (1942) Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the National Park Service.
To celebrate its 100th year, the National Park Service is seeking a photographer to document some of its iconic landscapes. The NPS is quick to point out this modern iteration won’t be as glamorous as Adams’ treks through Yosemite; the job will mostly consist of photographing railroads, buildings and landscapes.
However, it will be a fantastic opportunity for someone to follow Adams’ path to promote better understanding of nature.
The job pays between $63,722 and $99,296 a year and requires one to be skilled in “the principles and techniques of large format black and white photography,” but the NPS wants images in both digital and film format.
What’s more, the images will join Adams’ among the permanent collections at the US Library of Congress.
Adams shot his famous images for the government from the 1930s up until 1941 before World War II ended the project. Some 226 of his images of the American West from this period sit in the National Archives.
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