THE FILE 45,000 35mm and digital.

OVERVIEW Specializes in tropical forest wildlife and environments of Latin America. Biodiversity of neotropical forests and the Andes Mountains.

NATURAL HISTORY Wildlife, plants and landscapes of tropical America: cloudforest, dry forest, rainforest, savanna. Amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, reptiles, spiders. Descriptive portraiture as well as wildlife in its natural environment.

GENERAL STOCK People in tropical forests: natives, settlers. Ecotourism, ethnobotany, scientific research. Archaeological sites.

ENVIRONMENTAL Biodiversity. Sustainable use of tropical forest. Slash-and-burn agriculture. Deforestation, logging. Fishing, hunting. Gold mining. Cattle breeding.

ENDANGERED WILDLIFE Black caimans, giant otters, jaguars, Orinoco crocodiles, tapirs, vicuñas. Hyacinth macaws in dry open woodland or cerrado habitat of northeastern Brazil. Former macaw trappers now involved with hyacinth macaw conservation project.

SPECIALTIES Aerials of rainforests, rivers. Amazonian Peru: Alto Purus NP, Bahuaja-Sonene NP, Manu NP, Río Abiseo NP, Tambopata National Reserve. Northwestern Peru: Tumbesian dry forest, Cerros de Amotape NP, Chaparri Reserve. Bolivia: Gran Chaco NP, Apolobamba Mountain Range, Madidi NP, Ulla Ulla Biosphere Reserve. Macros of amphibians and reptiles, insects and spiders. Life history of Brazil nut tree and animal interaction with tree. People in the rainforest.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Amazonia, Andes, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Galápagos Islands, Peru, Venezuela.

RECENT COVERAGE Wild Jaguars in southeastern Peru. Giant otters in southeastern Peru. Research and conservation project of the Frankfurt Zoological Society. Mineral licks in the rainforest where tapirs, brocket deer, peccaries, monkeys, parrots and other wildlife come to eat the mineral-rich clay. Illegal logging and gold mining in southeastern Peru.

CREDITS Magazines: Airone, BBC Wildlife, Destination Discovery, Equinox, Geo, Grands Reportages, International Wildlife, National Geographic World, Natural History, Nature Conservancy, Newsweek, Nikon News, Oasis, Ranger Rick, Sinra, Smithsonian, Terre Sauvage, Wildlife Conservation. Books: APA, BBC, Bertelsmann, Camden House, Greey de Pencier, Heyne, Lerner, National Geographic, Reader's Digest, Reed Library, Scientific American. Sole Photographer: Peru's Amazonian Eden—Manu National Park (Blassi, 1992/1998), Where the Andes Meet the Amazon (Blassi, 2001). Paper Products: Calendars for Audubon, Greenpeace, Trees for Life, World Wildlife Fund; greeting cards, posters, video and CD covers. Brochures: Bird Life International, Conservation International, Wetlands for the Americas, World Wildlife Fund. Advertising/Corporate: Canon, InkaNatura, International Expeditions, Kellogg's, Mountain Travel, PeruVerde, PromPeru, Seiko, Swissair, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. Awards: BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award - overall honor 1992; awarded or commended in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997.

COMMENTS 30 years of expedition experience to remote places. Available for assignments in Latin America.