The Galleries at the Jester Park Nature Center

The Galleries at Jester Park Nature Center offers the opportunity for local art to be displayed and made available for sale to park visitors.

CURRENT GALLERY

Walking with Pumas

This art exhibition highlights the work of photographer and poet, Paul Brooke. 

Paul Brooke is a professor, poet, and photographer. He teaches at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. This exhibit was taken during a week-long visit to Torres del Paine National Park, where Brooke photographed 12 different pumas. Some days he spent up to 9 hours with one animal (the big male) or walked along with Blinca (female) as she hunted for her two cubs. The wind was exhausting as it often roared through the region at 50 mph. His book, Pantagruelian: Photographs of Torres del Paine, will be released in mid-January and will be for sale. It features most of these photos.

Brooke is the author of seven books including Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal, Sirens and Seriemas: Photographs and Poems of the Amazon and Pantanal, The Skáld and the Drukkin Tröllaukin: Photographs and Poems of Iceland, and Light and Matter: Photographs and Poems of Iowa. His photographs have been featured in nine exhibits across North America and in Audubon and Wild Planet magazines. Please check out his website for more information and images.