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Michael Friedel was born in 1935 and for nearly forty years has been taking pictures for leading international magazines including LIFE, PARIS MATCH, GEO, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and STERN. His photographs of these magically beautiful islands have been seen all over the world. He has traveled extensively, publishes more than 15 photo books in several languages. He is at home not only in every country under the sun but in all the elements - on land, in the air, on the water and beneath it.

With his incomparable photographs of the Maldive Island, Michael Friedel, one of Germany's leading photojournalists, has made the breathtaking beauty of these jewels of the Indian Ocean famous throughout the word. His aerial views of the Maldives have given a new perspective of their home to the islanders themselves. On the 10th anniversary of the Maldive independence his pictures were used in a series of postage stamps. For over twenty years Michael Friedel has been taking photograph of these tropical atolls on land, under water and from the air. This volume contains a selection of his finest work.