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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 17 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. To visit his photography website, please click here.

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:

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
  • Environmental Agency - Abu Dhabi
  • Florida Museum of Natural History
  • Gatlinburg Aquarium
  • Grazia Neri Agency (Milan)
  • Greenpeace (Germany)
  • Janin Cliff Design
  • Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Keystone Press
  • Lee County, FL Parks & Recreation
  • Metronome Productions (Danish TV)
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • MSNBC.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • National Geographic Television
  • New Jersey State Aquarium
  • NOAA
  • 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
  • Virginia Aquarium
  • World Society for the Protection of Animals
  • WPTV NBC (Palm Beach, FL)
  • WWF Wildlife Babies Calendar 2007

Book Publishers:

  • Abdo Publishing
  • Agrupacion Sierra Madre
  • American Historical Pub.
  • Anness
  • APA
  • Audubon
  • Bearport Publishing
  • Bedford St. Martins
  • Bright Star
  • Capstone
  • Carus Publishing
  • Colin Baxter Photography
  • Collins
  • Colophon Strumenti (Italy)
  • Cowley Robinson Publishing
  • Crabtree
  • Delmar Publishing
  • Discovery Books Limited
  • Dorling Kindersley
  • Editions Milan Jeunesse
  • Enslow Publishers
  • Facts on File
  • Folens
  • Gale Research Co.
  • Harcourt Education
  • Harper Collins
  • Heinemann Library
  • Houghton Mifflin
  • John Hopkins University Press
  • Key Porter/Firefly
  • Lerner
  • Lucent
  • Macmillan
  • Marshall Cavendish
  • McDougal Littell
  • McGraw Hill Ryerson
  • Morgan Interactive
  • National Geographic School Publishing
  • Natural History Museum (London)
  • Nelson Education
  • Newbridge
  • Pearson Education
  • Prentice Hall
  • Rough Guides
  • Scholastic
  • Studio Cactus
  • The Child's World
  • Time for Kids School Publishing
  • University of California Press
  • Voyager
  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • WH Freeman & Comp
  • White Star
  • World Book
  • World Wide Publications
  • WW Norton & Co.
  • Zaner Bloser

Magazines & Newspapers:

  • Animals & You
  • BBC Wildlife
  • Bild Am Sonntag/Axel Springer (Germany)
  • Boating Magazine
  • Car Designer
  • Dive
  • Dive New Zealand
  • East News Moscow
  • Egmont Magazines Limited
  • FHM Magazine (South Africa)
  • Field & Stream
  • Florida Wildlife Magazine
  • Flyfishing in Salt Waters
  • Freshwater & Marine Aquarium Magazine
  • GE Fabbri
  • Guardian
  • John Brown Citrus (UK)
  • Mergulho
  • Metro Life
  • Milan Presse (France)
  • National Geographic Adventure
  • National Geographic Explorer
  • National Geographic Junior
  • National Geographic World
  • National Geographic Youth
  • National Wildlife
  • Nature
  • Nature's Best
  • New Scientist
  • Newsweek
  • New Zealand Herald
  • Nice Matin
  • Nick Jr. Magazine (Nickelodeon)
  • Nickelodeon Magazine
  • Ocean Realm
  • Palm Beach Daily News
  • Palm Beach Post
  • Planeta Facinante
  • Popular Science
  • Reed Business Information
  • Reuters
  • Scotland on Sunday
  • Scuba Diving
  • Skin Diver
  • Smithsonian
  • Southern Diver
  • Sport Diver
  • Sport Fishing
  • Take a Break Magazine
  • Tauchen (Germany)
  • The Press Journal
  • Times of London
  • Unterwasser (Germany)
  • US News & World Report
  • Videnskab
  • Weekly Reader
  • Women in the Outdoors

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