2018 Sony World Photography Awards - Category Winner, Travel, Open Competition
Mikkel Beiter is a landscape-, travel- and wildlife photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark. His great passion in photography is within the genres of landscape and wildlife photography. To achieve his goals and to challenge himself, he often spent his holidays traveling to different parts of the world with his camera. Mikkel has spent a great amount of time in Africa to get close to the African wildlife, and when it comes to landscape photography he really enjoys the vast and beautiful landscapes in the Arctic Circle, especially the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. He is a self-taught photographer and he has been focusing a lot on his work as a photographer since 2015. He has had to take one step at a time because of his full-time job where he works in IT.