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Wolfgang
Kaehler has studied photography and photo engineering in his native
Germany for six years. Since 1977, he has photographed around the
world for magazines and travel companies. He served as an expedition
cruise ship photographer for four years and had the opportunity
to explore and photograph some of the world's more remote regions.
His Antarctic image collection is significantly one of the largest
of any professional photographer's in the world.
In
1985, he was awarded First Prize in the Composition & Form category
of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, sponsored
by BBC Wildlife and the Museum Of Natural History in London. His
winning photo, "Penguins on Ice", was one of 8,500 worldwide entries.
In 1988, National Geographic selected him as one of 100 photographers
for a worldwide exhibit and book entitled Odyssey - The Art of Photography
at National Geographic. In 1989, The Chicago Headline Club awarded
him the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in the category
of Photojournalism.
Presently
Wolfgang Kaehler photographs throughout the world on assignment
for various publications, advertising agencies, and travel companies.
His photos appear in some of the world's most prestigious publications
such as National Geographic, Geo, Smithsonian, Natural History,
Audubon, Islands, Time-Life, Travel & Leisure, World Wildlife Fund,
UNICEF, and International Wildlife. In September of 1989 Chronicle
Books in San Francisco published his book Penguins. Wolfgang currently
lectures for photography organizations as well as museums, such
as the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He also leads
photo safaris around the world.
The
photographic collection of Wolfgang Kaehler featured an extensive
range of photographs from over 185 countries. Visit http://www.wkaehlerphoto.com
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