Stefan Christmann (born in Koblenz/Rhein, Germany) is a passionate nature photographer and co-founder of the GDT youth group. His profession as a physicist enabled him to spend an uninterrupted 15 month in Antarctica from December 2011 until February 2013. While conduction geophysical research and measurements on the German polar research station Neumayer III he used every minute of his free time to photograph the vast Anarctic landscapes and to explore the nearby emperor penguin colony. He returned with numerous unique images from a place which is considered just to be flat, white and boring by many people. In reality however he found a landscape carved by water and wind showing a range of colors unmatched by any other place on the planet. As one of very few human beings he was able to photograph the entire life cycle of the emperor penguins even during the Southern polar winter. About Antarctica he says:
„Antarctica is the last place where the landscape is not shaped by man, but where man is shaped by the landscape. We should do everything we can in order to keep it that way!“.
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