Klaus Nigge

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Klaus Nigge (born January 1, 1956 in Lünen ) is a German biologist and animal photographer .

Life

At the age of 17, Nigge made his first professional attempts as a photographer with a Super 8 camera and a self-made tripod . After studying philosophy, art and biology, he worked as a wildlife biologist for several years. In 1984 he devoted himself to wildlife photography. In 1991 he became a member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen e. V. (GDT, today Society for Nature Photography ), of which he was president from 1992 to 1995. Since 1995 Nigge has been working as a freelance nature photographer , whose photos have been published in magazines such as National Geographic , Geo (Germany, Spain and Russia), Terre Sauvage and Airone . Klaus Nigge is a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers . Therefore, his main focus is on photographing endangered species. In 2004 he observed bison in the Białowieża National Park in Poland, made a photo report about the Philippine eagle and realized a project about the whooping crane .

In 2006 Nigge received the City of Lünen's Culture Prize, in 2009 the Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife and in 2010 the Fritz Steiniger Prize of the Society of German Animal Photographers.

For his photo of hundreds of pink flamingos at an estuary on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Nigge received the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer award in the “Creative Visions” category at the 2012 International Nature Photography Festival in London.

At the “Miracles of Nature” exhibition in the Oberhausen Gasometer in 2016/2017, Klaus Nigge shows his photos of the Philippine eagles threatened in their habitat. For three weeks he observed the development of the little eagles with the Eagle Foundation. A bald eagle can also be seen. Nigge is represented for the third time at the exhibition, which attracted great interest with almost 400,000 visitors in the first four months and can be seen until November 2017.

In 2017, Nigge was one of the finalists in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition at the Natural History Museum in London with a portrait of a bald eagle .

Works (selection)

  • 1988: Low-nutrient wetlands in the southwest of the Westphalian Bay: vegetation and nature conservation situation
  • 1995: Nature Pictures , Vol. 1
  • 1997: Kamchatka: eagles, bears and volcanoes
  • 1999: Eagle life
  • 2004: Return of the King. European bison in the Polish jungle
  • 2007: crane
  • 2010: Whooping Crane - Images from the Wild

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personal data
SURNAME Nigge, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal photographer and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Luenen