Joachim Schmeisser. Photographer, born in 1958 in Germany, started his professional career as an advertising photographer. In addition to commercial photography, he focuses on socially relevant subjects. The photographer is best known for the large-scale photographic series he has done in East Africa since 2009 – the iconic elephant portraits in the Sheldrick Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya. In 2012, Joachim Schmeisser received the prestigious Hasselblad Masters Award for this project, and his work is still exhibited around the world today. In 2017 his book ‘Elephants in Paradise’ was released by German publisher teNeues and sold out within 4 months. The next book ‘The Last of Their Kind’ was published in spring 2021 by teNeues publishing house. Joachim Schmeisser is one of the most prominent photographers of this genre in the world. His books on Africa’s endangered wildlife ‘Elephants in the Sky’ and ‘The Last of Their Kind’ have become bestsellers.