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About Manuel Bauer
(Swiss, born 1966), a founding member of Lookat, is based in Winterthur/Switzerland. He is well known for his work on Calcutta, Tibet, and the Tibetan diaspora. The story of the six-year-old girl Yangdol who makes her way from Lhasa across the ice-capped Himalayas to India, originally commissioned by "du" magazine, is one of the most acclaimed reportages of the '90s, published world-wide in major magazines under the title Escape from Tibet. In 1999 Manuel Bauer spent several weeks on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean. |
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'Tristan da Cunha'. The most isolated inhabited island in the world.
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Aerial view of the island. Edinburg, the capital is situated (right side) on the only low-lying place on the island. Tristan da Cunha 1998.
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Photos: © 2000 Manuel Bauer. Text: © 2000 Christian Schmidt.
Tristan da Cunha is the most isolated inhabited island in the world: 3'000 km away from the nearest mainland, its stands alone in the middle of the South Atlantic, halfway between the southern most point of South Africa and South America. 
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The Great White Shark 'in Danger of Extinction'.
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In danger of extinction: TheGreat White Shark in the waters off the coast of Cap Horn, South Africa, 10.1998.
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© Manuel Bauer, Text: Christian Schmidt.
Back in the 1970's, when Steven Spielberg released his blockbuster feature film 'Jaws', no one could ever have imagined the public's reaction. But what would launch Spielberg's career, meant disaster for the Great White Shark. In the years following the release of the film, not just the Great White but sharks in general became 'public-enemy n°1'.
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