Breakthroughs - Spring 2014

For the issue coordinating with the centennial of UC Berkeley's forestry program, we had a wonderful story to tell, complete with a decade long arc of challenges, conflicts, complex, uneasy resolutions, and even a hero. But how many photos of researchers in forests can one article take? We needed a compelling visual thread to tell this very human story, and my designer and I quickly settled on San Francisco tin-type photographer Michael Shindler. Shindler's expertise with this anachronistic technology yielded, thanks also to good-natured faculty members, some of the strongest images the magazine has produced.