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Photographer of the Month – Tom Peschak

Thomas P. Peschak, our photographer of the month and member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, is the Chief Photographer of the Save our Seas Foundation and travels extensively in pursuit of marine wildlife and underwater stories.

Peschak was born in Germany but has lead a near continuous nomadic existence and today spends the 100 or so days when he is not on the road in his adopted home of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a former marine biologist who specialized in kelp forest ecology and the impacts of illegal fishing, who left science to pursue a life in environmental photojournalism.

He began his career specializing in photographing Africa’s marine and coastal biodiversity and produced three books on the subject. Currents of Contrast: Life in Southern Africa’s Two Oceans, South Africa’s Great White Shark and Wild Seas Secret Shores of Africa. He has recently broadened his geographic scope to include the wider Indian Ocean region and has worked extensively in the Maldives, Seychelles and Middle East. A new book on the marine environment of Aldabra and the Seychelles is due to be published in mid 2009.

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