Norbert Rosing is uniquely qualified to write about polar bears. His fascination with them began in 1983 on his first visit to Canada from Germany. After a 1,000-mile train trip from Winnipeg to Churchill, he arrived to find that a sudden arctic storm had transformed the town into an icy desert. Not only did his film freeze and break, but his camera stopped functioning permanently.

However, Rosing did see his first polar bear. Fascinated by this magnificent white mammal, he now returns to the Arctic up to three times a year to study and photograph polar bears, and he has come to regard Churchill as his home away from home.

His stunning photography and insightful commentary are featured in The World of the Polar Bear. Be sure to read the press release here.

As well as photographing polar bears and the Arctic, he is a dedicated photographer of African wildlife, old-growth forests and the national parks of eastern Germany. He has received numerous awards for his work and is a frequent contributor to magazines and books, including Yellowstone (Firefly Books 1998). His work has been featured National Geographic eight times and was also chosen as the cover image for the National Geographic’s 100 Best Wildlife Pictures issue and is in the 100 Best Pictures Collector’s Edition. He has written articles about walruses, muskoxen and arctic foxes as well.

Further examples of Norbert Rosing’s polar bear photographs can be found in Firefly’s annual Polar Bears calendar and on our Polar Bears postcards.

National Geographic is releasing a documentary on polar bears and walruses in July 2006 and the film was party inspired by Rosing’s polar bear photos.

In his native Germany, he has written many articles for GEO magazine and as well as 4 books. One of his photographs appears on a German stamp. Please visit Norbert Rosing’s website at www.rosing.de