About Michael AW

www.michaelaw.com Fellow International - The Explorer Club, www.explorers.org Fellow - International League of Conservation Photographers, www.ILCP.org Michael AW saturated colour imageries have earn him 57 international awards; his work have been featured in BBC Wildlife, National Geographic, the Smithsonian, GEO, Ocean GEOGRAPHIC, Asian Geographic, Action Asia, Nature Focus etc. His most glorious achievement is a Palme D'or for "Philippines- Heart of the Ocean", won at the World Underwater Pictures Festival, France 2009. He is also a recipient of two awards from the Natural History Museum BBC Photographer of the Year Wildlife Competition in 2000 and in 2006 he won the Best Winner award in the underwater category. Michael AW is the founder of OceanNEnvironment's a charity organization registered with Environment Australia. In 2008 Stan Waterman conferred Michael with the Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Award by Sharks Research Institute in recognition of his highly-effective and unrelenting campaign against shark fin soup consumption in the Asia Pacific region. Michael is the project director of the Elysium Epic imagery expedition with 57 team members comprising of the world's best image makers and scientists to document the flora and fauna for a movie and climate change index of the Antarctic Peninsula to South Georgia, following the footstep of Sir Ernest Shackleton 1914-17 Trans Antarctic Expedition. (www.ElysiumEpic.org)