“It’s a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species”

                                   Sir David Attenborough

André Gilden is born in 1961 at the small town Hilversum and moved to Amsterdam at a  young age. Grown up in an old neighbourhood called Kinkerbuurt in Old western part of the city. His first experience with nature was at the Northern Holland dune reserves where a great part of his youth was spend

Started at young age with photography and  a Russian Zenith EM, an all manual SRL. Together with this camera and his partner, many hours got spend in the Dutch dunes en several Zoos. After some time the Zenith got exchanged for Practica and finally the first Nikon.                 

 

 

From that time things got more serious, the dark room came for color prints. The first results were there, a recommendation  and exposition at the Novotel in Amsterdam for Sail Amsterdam. But from that moment on his own company in construction started to claim all the time he had. And after a few trips to Norway and the USA, it got silent with the photography.

Not until the sell and transfer of the construction company in 2007, All the attention could again  be on photography and nature. After a few photographs and a small item about Antarctica in the British magazine “Outdoor magazine”, all his attentions are back on nature photography. At the start of 2009 he took the step and ended his job in construction to work as a professional photographer.

From that moment several prizes were won, including Natures Best Photography, Festival de L’Oiseaux at the Somme and Montiers-en-Ders. Also his images and some of his articles are published, including Outdoor Photography, Natures Best Photography Magazine, Grasduinen, Camera Magazine, E&V Magazine, Nature & Image and Chasseur d’Image.

To make those images of the natural World, André has to travel all over the world. About these  corners of the world there are made stories and images for magazines, books and interested.