Breiter, Matthias 1964- (Matthias N. Breiter)

PERSONAL:

Born September 29, 1964, in Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany); son of Reinhard (a university lecturer) and Renate (a homemaker) Breiter; married Laurel Snyder (a physician), September 29, 2001; children: Aislyn, Kiri. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of Heidelberg, M.A., 1989; also attended University of Massachusetts.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Kenora, Ontario, Canada. E-mail—matthias.breiter@wildlifefotofilm.de.

CAREER:

Freelance photographer and writer.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Photography Award, Nature's Best, 2005.

WRITINGS:

PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS

Kakadu and the Top End, Kangaroo Press (Kenthurst, Australia), 1996.

Australien, Die Naturwunder, Edition Mondo, 1997.

Alaska, Naturparadies am Polarkreis, C.J. Bucher (Munich, Germany), 1997.

(With Dieter Kreutzkamp) WestKanada/Alaska: Reisen und erleben, Tiere und Pflanzen entdecken, Kosmos (Stuttgart, Germany), 1999.

The Bears of Katami: Alaska's Famous Brown Bears, Graphic Arts Center Publishing (Portland, OR), 2000.

Bears: A Year in the Life, Firefly Books (Buffalo, NY), 2005.

Wild Alaska, BreiterView Publishing, 2007.

Contributor of articles and photographs to periodicals, including Outdoor Photographer, Geo, Animan, Terre Sauvage, and Nature's Best.

SIDELIGHTS:

Matthias Breiter told CA: "My goal is to educate with books. I believe we cannot love what we don't understand, nor can we protect it or fully appreciate it.

"I try to bring across the beauty of our world. I thus hope my books will inspire people to protect and preserve the natural world around us."