Birgitte bio

Birgitte Wilms Professional Biography

Born in 1966 outside of Copenhagen, Denmark, Birgitte Wilms began her underwater photographic career in 1988 at the age of 22 in the Egyptian Red Sea. Her work gained immediate acceptance with Danish publications. A number of magazines from her home country ran photo articles and interviews from her first underwater photography expedition.

Danish magazines have featured her work on numerous occasions, with major photographic essays and interviews in Inspiration, Hendes Verden, Hjemmet and I Form. Some of these features have been translated and published in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Denmark's largest newspaper Berlingske Tidende ran a feature story by Birgitte's on the Galapagos Islands, appearing on the front page of their weekly travel section.

The prestigious German underwater photographic magazine UWF has published Birgitte's photos, including never before photographed species marine life. Other of her photographs have appeared in German / English marine life identification books.

In the United States, the New York Times Magazine has published Birgitte's work. Islands Magazine has featured her pictures, including photos appearing in a cover story on the Solomon Islands. The elegant coffee table magazine Ocean Realm has made regular use of Ms. Wilms photographs, highlighted by an 8 page feature portfolio exclusively of Birgitte's photographs. Noted Newsweek economic columnist Jane Bryant Quinn's book features one of Birgitte's photographs on its cover.

The National Wildlife Federation has published several of Ms. Wilms pictures in their coffee table book entitled, Patterns. Her work has appeared in National Geographic books, National Wildlife Magazine, Natural History Magazine and BBC Wildlife Magazine, Delta Sky Magazine and Ranger Rick. Ms. Wilms has had feature portfolios in Australia's Sport Diving Magazine. Birgitte's work was featured in the May 1995 issue of GEO Magazine, Europe's premier geographic publication.

Chris and Birgitte's photographs have been selected for the 16 page feature portfolio in the prestigious 1998 Photography Yearbook. The Yearbook publishes work from the world's finest photographers, and this is the first time ever that underwater photographers will have been presented in this distinguished British publication.

Most recently, Birgitte and Chris had a two-person, four month long print exhibit at the Mariners' Museum, in Newport News, Virginia. They also had two person exhibit at Warner Brothers / Reprise Records headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. Birgitte and Chris were featured in the premier segment of Discovery Channel's new show, Go For It. Most recently, Birgitte and Chris were featured in the Outdoor Channel's series on the finest nature photographers, entitled, Nature's Best.

Ms. Wilms handles her own stock photography from her home base in New Hampshire. She is Vice President of Rainbowed Sea Tours, Inc. and with husband, Chris Newbert, conducts international dive and photographic tours to the world's finest diving locations. Her stock photo files include subjects from the Red Sea, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Hawaii, Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island.

In late 1994 Birgitte and Chris released their new coffee table book, In a Sea of Dreams. Featuring both Birgitte's and Chris' photographs, In a Sea of Dreams is destined to become the new standard of underwater photographic excellence. In its first few months of release, In a Sea of Dreams won the World Grand Prize for Best Book of Underwater Photography, awarded in Antibes, France.

Birgitte is currently working on a children's book series, which will be featuring Birgitte's and Chris images. The text will be written by her. She has been speaking and showing her children slideshows for the Sunshine Kids, at the Rocky Mountain Children's Book Festival in Denver and at diving conventions around the country.

Birgitte and Chris presently live on their horse farm in New Hampsire.

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