Juergen Freund
Conservation Photography
International League of Conservation Photographers
Cairns QLD, Australia
Jürgen Freund was born in Germany. He studied mechanical engineering and found out it wasn’t creative enough for his inventive mind. Instead of designing machines, he worked as an industrial photographer in Munich for 7 years. Lured by the challenge of marine wildlife photography, he acquired an underwater camera even before learning how to scuba-dive in 1981 in the cold lakes of Germany. Finally, he answered “the call of the sea” and became a full-time freelance marine and wildlife photographer in 1995 getting his work published internationally.
Yogi’s engineering background comes in handy whenever he has to make his own lenses & photo equipment to suit his needs when there are none available in the market. He is innovative in his photographic style and count a lot in his engineering abilities to answer creative requirements. He specialises in wildlife and nature subjects and prefers working on a project tackling photo shoots in a photojournalistic manner. A visual storyteller by heart, he likes showing photo stories about animals and people, working slow and letting nature or events unfold and capturing these in its natural manner.
Juergen now lives in Tropical North Queensland with his wife, Stella.
2015 - NATURE IMAGES AWARDS / France, 2014 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, 2007 - NATURE’S BEST INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD, 2007 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, 2004 - NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION, 2003 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, 1999 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, 1999 - WORLD PRESS PHOTO AWARD, 1997 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, 1996 - FESTIVAL MONDIAL DE L’IMAGES SOUS-MARINE ANTIBES, 1995 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, 1994 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, 1993 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, 1992 - NIKON PHOTO CONTEST INTERNATIONAL
- Architecture
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interior
- Landscape
- Underwater
- Video capture
- Wildlife
