2nd place
silver star award
Judith Kuhn
germany
title
from the life of the white bears of Svalbard
I started with photography at the age of about 12 years with a very cheap analog compact camera followed by a better analog model from Braun. After some years without taking pictures I got my first analog SLR camera - a Minolta XG9 - from my father. I learned about photography in an autodidactic way and soon I changed from negative prints to diapositives. In 2007 I bought my first DSLR camera, a Canon EOS 350D followed by a Canon EOS 500D, a Canon EOS 70D and the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV which I use today. My main subject is the landscape photography, mostly in the italian and swiss alps but I try to take pictures of animals and plants also...
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While the polar bear is threatened worldwide by climate change and populations are declining, the population on the arctic archipelago of Svalbard is growing steadily. During my trip in may this year I had numerous encounters with the king of the arctic, the highlight was a curious cub fresh in its icy worldabout the photographer
I was born in 1974 in Ebingen (Germany) and grew up in Sigmaringen, where I finished school in 1994. Afterwards I went to the university in Stuttgart where I studied architecture. I had jobs in different firms and meanwhile I live in the small town Immenstaad at the Lake Constance.I started with photography at the age of about 12 years with a very cheap analog compact camera followed by a better analog model from Braun. After some years without taking pictures I got my first analog SLR camera - a Minolta XG9 - from my father. I learned about photography in an autodidactic way and soon I changed from negative prints to diapositives. In 2007 I bought my first DSLR camera, a Canon EOS 350D followed by a Canon EOS 500D, a Canon EOS 70D and the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV which I use today. My main subject is the landscape photography, mostly in the italian and swiss alps but I try to take pictures of animals and plants also...
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