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Mattias Klum
August 22, 2008
Considered a hero in his native
Sweden, Mattias Klum is a world-renowned nature photographer,
documentary filmmaker, and television host. His resume includes
numerous National Geographic stories including three covers;
features in Audubon, Geo, Wildlife Conservation, among other
magazines; and several internationally released films. He also
regularly presents to the European Commission on environmental
topics.
He has braved some of the wildest
places on earth to document rare animals and plants. He has completed
major expeditions to Brunei, Nigeria, Brazil, Panama, Costa Rica,
India, Guyana, Thailand, South Africa, and Mongolia. Klum's longest
expedition, a 14-month journey into the 100,000 acre protected
rain forest in Borneo's interior, resulted in the internationally
exhibited film, "The Eye of the Forest," a book, and
a National Geographic cover story, "Malaysia's Secret Realm."
His most recent project, "The
Linnaeus Expedition" was completed to celebrate the 300th
birthday of Carl Linnaeus, a national symbol in Sweden who began
to catalogue, organize, and give names to the whole natural world.
Klum traveled to seven continents for this project and asked
eminent scientists throughout the world to update us about the
questions that Linnaeus took up.
Two of Klum's eight books have
been honored with the World Wildlife Federation's 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. |
