Mattias Klum
Mattias Klum was born in Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden on February 10th, 1968 and is the Photographer. At the age of 56, Mattias Klum biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Mattias Klum (born in Uppsala, 1998) is a Swedish freelance photographer and film director specialising in natural history and culture.
Arne Klum (1925-2016) and Ingegärd Klum, née Stefanson, are his sons.
Klum has been working full-time as a freelance photographer since 1986, as well as as a cinematographer and producer on numerous film and television projects since 1994.
In the form of essays, films, lectures, and exhibitions, Klum explains and depicts animals, plants, and cultural settings. Klum has had several wildlife documentaries on Swedish national television, as well as others on Wildlife Conservation, Audubon, Geography, National Geographic, Terre sauvage, Stern, Der Spiegel, and the New York Times among others. Mattias Klum's photographs were published in 1997 by National Geographic Magazine for the first time, making him the first Swede to have his photographs on the front page. Until then, he was one of National Geographic's youngest contributors.
He has written several journal articles and twelve cover stories for the magazine, including "Meerkats Explain" (September 2001), "What Darwin Didn't Know" (February 2009) and "The Bite That Heals," since 1997.
Klum's photographs have been seen in one-man exhibitions at respected museums and art galleries in the United States, Sweden, Malaysia, India, Japan, Great Britain, Estonia, Denmark, Botswana, China, and Singapore among other countries.
Klum has published twelve books, five of which are available in English: The Rainforest, Borneo Rainforest, Horse People, Being There, and The Human Quest are among their topics. Klum, a five-year-long environment and inspiration project about Sweden and the Baltic Sea Media Project in 2007, alongside producer Folke Rydén, contributed to the establishment of Tierra Grande Publishing, a publishing company.
He has also worked with Prince Carl Philip of Sweden. The book, The Human Quest: Prospering Within Planetary Boundaries, is co-authored by scientist and global sustainability expert Johan Rockström, with a foreword by former President Bill Clinton.
Klum's award in 2013 received an Honorary Doctorate degree in Natural Science from Stockholm University, as well as the World Wildlife Fund ambassador.