Christian Ziegler
Christian Ziegler is a German photojournalist, BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2005, and regular contributor to National Geographic. He is known for his photography at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and a forest in Barro Colorado Island, which was used in a science book called A Magic Web, published by Oxford University Press in 2002. Later on, he collaborated with Egbert Leigh as a co-author and together they published a book of orchids which was published in 2011 by University of Chicago Press.
Christian Ziegler
- Born
- 1972
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · ecologist
- Languages
- German
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Christian Ziegler is a German photojournalist, BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2005, and regular contributor to National Geographic. He is known for his photography at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and a forest in Barro Colorado Island, which was used in a science book called A Magic Web, published by Oxford University Press in 2002. Later on, he collaborated with Egbert Leigh as a co-author and together they published a book of orchids which was published in 2011 by University of Chicago Press.
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