About
Christian Ziegler is a photojournalist specializing in natural history and science-related topics. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine, and has been widely published in other magazines like GEO.
Christian’s aim is to highlight species and ecosystems under threat and
share their beauty, and importance with a broad audience. A tropical
ecologist by training, he has worked in tropical rainforests on four
continents, and for the past 12 years has been Associate for
communication with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in
Panama. He is a founding fellow of the International League of
Conservation Photographers (iLCP.com). Christians work has been awarded
prizes in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the European
Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitions, and in 2017, he received
the Outstanding Nature Photographer Award from the North American
Nature Photography Association. He has won four World Press Awards in
2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Christian lives at the edge of a rain forest
National Park in Central Panama from where he starts his adventures
around the world.
For more photos from Christian's projects, follow him on instagram: @christianziegler
Joined
May 2015