Andris Apse

I was born in Latvia in 1943 and arrived in New Zealand in 1949. When leaving school I joined the New Zealand Forest Service and later the Forest and Range Experiment Station where I traveled to remote parts of New Zealand and encountered for the first time wilderness areas that made a lasting impact on me.

Since those first wilderness experiences I searched for ways to record and show the rest of the world the wild untamed beauty of our National Parks and Nature Reserves. I began to learn about photography and to cut a very long story short, I became a professional photographer in 1969 and graduated to full time landscape photography in 1983.

Since 1983 I have traveled more extensively and photographed in many countries but my main passion is the wilderness areas of Southern New Zealand, the Sub-Antarctic Islands and Antarctica.

Summary.

Full time Landscape photographer since 1983.

Winner of the animal behaviour section of the International Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition run by the Natural History Museum. Great Britain.

Winner of the Olympus Seventieth Anniversary Photographic Competition. Japan.

Winner of the Gold Award in the Pacific Asia Travel Association travel photograph category. Hong Kong.

First Prize in International Magazine Advertising. Awarded by the Advertising Club. New York.

Guest exhibitor at the International Photography Hall of Fame. Oklahoma. USA.

Twice awarded the Bronze Axis Award by the Advertising Institute of New Zealand.

Third prize winner in the Linhof International Photographic Competition. Germany.

Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers.

Corporate Profile photography in USA, England, Australia, and throughout New Zealand.

Commissioned assignments in Hawaii, Singapore, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, Thailand, USA, Australia, Tahiti, New Zealand.

Freelance photography in Chile, Latvia, Russia, India, Sub-Antarctic Islands, Italy, Tonga, Macquarie Island, Antarctica, Oman and Alaska.

Images Featured in the following publications:

* The New York Times. USA

* Merian. Germany.

* Geo. Germany

* Geo. Russia

* Club Marine. Australia

* Time. Pacific

* Sports International. Germany

* Latitudes. Canada

* Terra. Germany.

* Warren Miller's Snowworld. U.S.A

* Newsweek. U.S.A

* Focus. Italy

* Seven Seas. Japan

* National Geographic Explorer. USA

* Geo. Italy

* VSD. France

* The Peak. Hong Kong

* Marco Polo. Hong Kong

* Frankfurter Allgemeine. Germany

* Macquarie Island. Tasmania.

* Powder. U.S.A

* The Regent International. Hong Kong

* Airone. Italy

Major Book Projects:

* Light and Landscape

* New Zealand Landscapes

* The World's Top Photographers: Landscape

* Thailand. 7 Days in the Kingdom

* New Zealand From the Air

* Magnificient Wilderness

* This is New Zealand

* Wild New Zealand

* Discover New Zealand

* Travellers New Zealand

* New Zealand Subantarctic Islands

* Andris Apse - Odyssey and Images

* Andris Apse - Fiordland

* Te Wahipounamu. South-West New Zealand

* New Zealand Horizons

* Spectacular New Zealand

* Landmarks

* Making of New Zealand

* Suprising Lands Down Under

* Day Break 2000

* Neuseeland

* New Zealand the Beautiful Wilderness

* New Zealand The Millennium

* Farm Country

* Neuseeland, Die Schonsten Bilder