Cristina Mittermeier

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Cristina Mittermeier in 2009

Cristina Mittermeier b. Goettsch (born November 26, 1966 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican-American environmental photographer and founder of the ILCP.

Life

She studied marine biology at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey , but soon turned to photography. The founding of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) by Cristina Mittermeier in 2005 is now considered the official establishment of environmental photography as a separate discipline. Mittermeier gathered more than 40 environmental photographers at the 8th World Wilderness Congress in Anchorage , Alaska , for a symposium and together with them founded the ILCP as a lobby group and independent non-profit organization . Since then, the ILCP has been organizing photo expeditions and supporting environmental groups by licensing ILCP photographers' images.

Cristina Mittermeier has been one of the Sony Artisans of Imagery since 2008 .

She has been married to Russell Mittermeier , an American anthropologist , since 1991 . The couple have two sons.

Publications

Cristina Mittermeier has published a large number of books, including a. in the CEMEX Conservation Book Series.

  • Hotspots : Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions, 1999. Conservation International , Washington, DC
  • Megadiversity: Earths Biologically Wealthiest Nations, 1997. CEMEX , Mexico
  • Wildlife Spectacles
  • Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions, 2005. Conservation International, with a foreword by Harrison Ford and Ed Wilson .
  • Wilderness Areas: Earth's Last Wild Places, 2003. Conservation International, Washington, DC.
  • TransboundaryConservation: A New Vision for Protected Areas, 2005. Conservation International, Washington, DC.
  • The Human Footprint: Challenges for Wilderness and Biodiversity, 2006. CEMEX , Conservation International, ILCP. Mexico.
  • A Climate for Life, Facing the Global Challenge, 2008. CEMEX , Conservation International, ILCP. Mexico
  • The Wealth of Nature, 2009. CEMEX , Conservation International, ILCP, Mexico.
  • Freshwater; the Essence of Life, 2010. CEMEX , Conservation International, ILCP.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On this and the following Ward, Conservation Photography , pp. 54–57.
  2. ↑ CreativeLIVE: Cristina Mittermeier Biography .
  3. ^ CEMEX Building the Future: Conservation . Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cemex.com
  4. ↑ Conservation International: Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Threatened Terrestrial Ecoregions . Archived from the original on January 2, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.conservation.org
personal data
SURNAME Mittermeier, Cristina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goettsch, Cristina; Goettsch Cabello, Cristina Sofía; Goettsch Mittermeier, Cristina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican-American environmental photographer and founder of the ILCP
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city