George Steinmetz was born on 1957 and is an American photographer.
17 Facts About George Steinmetz
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George Steinmetz's work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Time, The New York Times Magazine, GEO, and he is a regular contributor to National Geographic.
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George Steinmetz was born in the neighborhood of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and graduated from Stanford University with a degree in geophysics in 1979.
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George Steinmetz began his career in photography after hitchhiking through Africa for 28 months in his twenties.
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George Steinmetz is the author of six books, African Air, Empty Quarter, Desert Air, New York Air, The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene, and Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World's Food which feature portfolios of his work in many regions of the world.
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In Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World's Food, George Steinmetz spent a decade documenting food production across more than 36 countries on six continents, as well as in 24 US states and five oceans.
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George Steinmetz has received many awards during his multi-decade career in photography, including two first prizes in science and technology from World Press Photo.
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George Steinmetz began using the paraglider in 1997 when a pilot he had hired for a job in Niger quit.
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George Steinmetz's work has been exhibited in Dubai, the Brookfield Winter Garden in New York.
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George Steinmetz was featured at TED Global 2017 in Tanzania, where he presented his work on Africa.
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George Steinmetz was interviewed by the Explorers Club in 2012 and presented his Feed the Planet project at the Explorer's Club, NYC in 2024.
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George Steinmetz presented his work at the LOOK3 Festival in Charlottesville, the New England Aquarium, and Harvard University.
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George Steinmetz has videos to preview his books African Air, Empty Quarter, and Desert Air.
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George Steinmetz was a National Geographic explorer and wildlife photographer on Welcome to Earth, the Disney+ original series from National Geographic that follows Will Smith on an extraordinary adventure around the world to explore Earth's greatest wonders and reveal its most hidden secrets.
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George Steinmetz appeared in Episode 2: "Descent into Darkness" and Episode 3: "Mind of the Swarm".
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On Oct 20,2023, George Steinmetz received the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability's 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award.
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George Steinmetz is married to Lisa Bannon, a writer and editor.