Alexander Schmidjell

Documentary & Wildlife Photographer

 

Alexander Schmidjell

Even when being a child i started a safari guide and filming career with my playmobil toys and spent hours with the local photography shop´s magazine, which camera gear i will take to safari in Africa when im “grown up”.

So after finishing engineering and agriculture school in Austria i left to Kenya in 2000, becoming a self employment safari guide and tour operator. In 2008 i started to study geography at university of Salzburg, where i did a photography course, which led me to my pro photographer career from 2012. Since then my wife Nina Jaxy, who is also a wildlife and underwater photographer and me are constantly traveling between Austria and Kenya doing assignments for NGO´s and magazines in picture and video. In time between we photograph wildlife and cultures.

I won several international and national photography awards. Publications in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Terra Mater Magazin, Salzburger Nachrichten, Tiroler Tageszeitung, The Independent UK, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung & Magazin, Architectural Digest.

I am partner photographer of the Swiss agency Keystone_SDA.