It’s going to take action from you and all of us working together.
Mattias Klum was born in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1968, and began taking photographs in his teens. Since 1986, he has been a full-time freelance photographer specializing in natural history and cultural subjects. His work has taken him all over the world.
His photographs have appeared in many publications worldwide, including National Geographic, Wildlife Conservation, Audubon, GEO, and other magazines.
Two of Klum's eight books have been honored with the WWF Panda Book of the Year award, and his photos have been exhibited in major museums and art galleries in the United States, Sweden, Malaysia, India, and Japan.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of WWF-Sweden and a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He has also been granted several prizes and scholarships for his artistic achievements, including a medal from the King of Sweden for his important achievements in nature photography.
Klum collaborates on fieldwork, books, and film projects with his wife, Monika, a photographer and writer. Their first film,The Eye of the Forest: A Film From the Interior of Borneo, has been shown internationally.
Tim Flach was born in London in 1958 and studied fine art at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design. After focusing on photography, he has gone on to see his work win numerous awards and be exhibited and discussed around the world. He is best known for the originality that he brings to capturing animal behaviour and characteristics. In this, he is often exploring the close relationship between animals and humans, in particular how humanity imposes and reveals its ideals when trying to understand and work with animals.
He seems to be one of the few nature /animal/wildlife photographers that are willing to talk about their work and the thoughts that precede the images. (Maybe they all do and I haven't looked.) He attempts many things in his ambiguous animal images: to suggest our kinship through the similarities in gesture to alien seeming creatures like bats. He wants to challenge our expectations of reality by placing animals outside their context. He also places a great deal of importance on the visual structure of his images and his photographs are as or more driven by design principles, than they are by their subjects. For this he tends to use exceptionally controlled environments in which he photographs these animals. The other reason for this is perhaps an obsession with detail evident in his shots. Design and detail dominate his visual style.
His work had been exhibited in the U.K., China, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, U.A.E., and U.S. An exhibition/book launch for Flach’s latest book, Equus, is planned for October 2008. His photography has been published in Creative Review, Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Photo District News, Domus and Eyemazing. Flach has been honored by D&AD, American Photography, Photo District News, Communications Arts, Creative Review, the Association of Photographers, the Clio Awards, Cannes Lions, International Photography Awards and Art Directors Club.
Can Photography change the world?
Meny students of photography would say so.
If it moves you, then it can move the world.
It is believed that this picture had a significant and remarkable effect on the world opinion and it partly contributed to the end of the Vietnam war.
* This photo is used in honor of the photographer (Eddie Adams) and the people that lost their life's in that horrible war and the victims of all the other wars in the history of man kind.
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