Photo peter menzel biography

Peter Menzel (right) is a California-based freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in many national and international publications including National Geographic, Life, Forbes, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, U.S.

News & World Report, Discover, Smithsonian, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Geo, Stern, Paris Match and Le Figaro.

Menzel has dedicated a large part of his 30-year career building an impressive portfolio of hi-tech stories on subjects as varied as virtual reality, insect robots, lightning, DNA fingerprinting, micromachines and solar power and solar cars.

Menzel's commitment to photography means he spends most of the year on the road shooting a story or researching the next assignment. Much of his work is self-initiated: his award-winning coverage of the Kuwait oil well fires ran as a 26-page cover story for German Geo and his photo essay of the civil war in Somalia was one of the first to hit the press.

As a photojournalist, Menzel is constantly pushing hims