John Ganis has done two books on land use and sustainability, "America’s Endangered Coasts, Photographs from Texas to Maine" George Thompson Publishing (2016) and "Consuming the American Landscape", Dewi Lewis Publishing (England) and Edition Braus (German edition) (2003). John Ganis was the recipient of the 2008 Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Arizona and the 2007 Honored Educator Award from the Midwest Region of the Society for Photographic Education. Portfolios of his photographs have appeared in Aperture Magazine, Camera Austria International, Photographie Magazine The Photo Review, the German magazine Photo News and Focal Plane Journal. His photographs of land use in America have been included in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the Cranbrook Art Museum. His photographs were also included the Houston FotoFest 2006 exhibition and accompanying catalog Earth as well as the international traveling exhibitions and catalogs Shrinking Cities and Imaging a Shattering Earth. His work has been reproduced and discussed in Land Matters, Landscape Photography Culture and Identity by Liz Wells and Undermining, A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics and Art in the Changing West by Lucy Lippard. Photographs by John Ganis are included in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Denver Art Museum.
