| Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Michael has been an avid conservationist since childhood. Fishing trips to the Amazon and abroad during his formative years whetted his appetite for exploration. At 18, he moved to the US to attend Lehigh University and to begin his career in advertising, consulting and financial services. In 1991, he relocated to South Florida. With the Gulf Stream at his doorstep, he began photographing the area's rich marine life while pursuing a corporate career and obtaining his MBA from the University of Miami. For the past 16 years, he has traveled extensively as a photographer and writer, concentrating primarily on sea life and environmental issues. His work, widely published, aims to educate and to communicate to others the beauty, diversity and fragility of the oceans - and the urgent need to protect them. Michael works with photo agents in New York and London, and his photography is licensed worldwide to many publishers in a variety of mediums. Partial credits include: | |
| Book Publishers: - Agrupacion Sierra Madre
- American Historical Pub.
- Anness
- APA
- Audubon
- Bearport Publishing
- Bedford St. Martins
- Bright Star
- Capstone
- Carus Publishing
- Colin Baxter Photography
- Colophon Strumenti (Italy)
- Cowley Robinson Publishing
- Crabtree
- Discovery Books Limited
- Dorling Kindersley
- Editions Milan Jeunesse
- Enslow Publishers
- Facts on File
- Folens
- Gale Research Co.
- Harcourt Education
- Harper Collins
- Houghton Mifflin
- John Hopkins University Press
- Key Porter/Firefly
- Lerner
- Lucent
- Marshall Cavendish
- McDougal Littell
- McGraw Hill Ryerson
- Morgan Interactive
- National Geographic School Publishing
- Natural History Museum (London)
- Newbridge
- Pearson Education
- Scholastic
- Studio Cactus
- The Child's World
- Time for Kids School Publishing
- Voyager
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- WH Freeman & Comp
- World Wide Publications
- WW Norton & Co.
- Zaner Bloser
| | Other: - Allan & Bertram Limited (Calendars)
- Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
- Axel Springer Polska (Poland)
- Blackwell Publishing (Global Change Biology Journal)
- Browntrout Calendars
- CDS Design
- Continuum Group (UK)
- Countryside Council of Wales
- Discovery Channel
- Drill Construction
- Florida Museum of Natural History
- Gatlinburg Aquarium
- Grazia Neri Agency (Milan)
- Greenpeace (Germany)
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Keystone Press
- Metronome Productions (Danish TV)
- nationalgeographic.com
- National Geographic Television
- New Jersey State Aquarium
- Ocean Conservancy
- Palma Aquarium (Mallorca, Spain)
- Portal Posters
- SCRFA (Society for the Conservation of Reef Fish Aggregations)
- SQN Communications
- The National Academy of Sciences
- Time.com
- Trend Enterprises
- World Society for the Protection of Animals
- WPTV NBC (Palm Beach, FL)
- WWF Wildlife Babies Calendar 2007
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