Florian Schulz (photographer)

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Florian Schulz (born December 21, 1975 in Weingarten ) is a German nature and environmental photographer .

Life

Schulz attended high school in Wilhelmsdorf in Württemberg and then studied biology and English at the University of Heidelberg from 1997 to 2002 . From 2000 to 2001 he was an exchange student at the UNAM in Mexico City , the capital of Mexico .

Schulz has been working as an animal and nature photographer since 2000. His pictures have been published in magazines such as National Geographic , BBC Wildlife and GEO . On average, Schulz spends eight to ten months in the field to document entire ecosystems with his photography projects. His last assignment took him to the Arctic for several years to shoot the companion book for the Warner Brothers IMAX film “To The Arctic”. Schulz has received a variety of awards, including “Environmental Photographer of the Year”, “Conservation Photographer of the Year” and numerous awards in the BBC Wildlife and European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitions.

Memberships

Exhibitions

  • 2013: Florian Schulz and Olaf Otto Becker represented Germany in 2013 at the Peuples et Nature exhibition at the annual photo festival in La Gacilly , Brittany .
  • 2015: Florian Schulz: To the Arctic , Anchorage Museum , Anchorage , Alaska , USA.
  • 2016: Unlimited wilderness, Bolzano Natural History Museum, South Tyrol, Italy

Publications

  • Yellowstone to Yukon: A Photographic Journey . The Mountaineers Books, Seattle, Washington, USA 2005, ISBN 0-89886-989-7 .
  • To the Arctic . Braided River, Seattle 2011, ISBN 978-1-59485-487-3 .
    • German: Arctic: A year in the Arctic . National Geographic / Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86690-300-5 .
  • Journey to the Arctic . Braided River, Seattle 2012, ISBN 978-1-59485-488-0 .
  • with others: Hunters of Light: Adventure Nature Photography . Knesebeck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86873-656-4 .
  • Wild Edge: Freedom to Roam. The Pacific Coast. A Photographic Journey ; Introduction by Bruce Barcott, epilogue by Philippe Cousteau. Braided River, Seattle, Washington, USA 2015, ISBN 978-0-898867732 .
  • Out in the Wild: North America's Pristine West Coast; With a foreword by Art Wolfe. Knesebeck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86873-940-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Between meadow, forest and deck chair. In: FAZ . June 26, 2013, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wildlife and nature photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Weingarten , Baden-Wuerttemberg