Today this beautiful book arrived:
The Invisible Photographer. I chose it for the photographer and photos, which you can
preview on Bence's website. Upon arrival, I was also stunned by the incredible production of this book. Each image is printed on heavy-weighted photo-paper (175g) in high gloss, separated by black print pages and the hide on the front cover has a mirror-like semi-permeable glass insert for the window, the same as the material used in Bence's construction of wildlife hides in nature. It is a specialised photographic book production revealing the highest quality reproductions, as well as the superb talent of the photographer. As his website explains, this book is the culmination of 10 years photographing birds and other animals from hideouts in Brazil, his native Hungary, and Costa Rica, from hours of lying camouflaged in self-constructued hide-outs, waiting for that poignant moment. It mostly comprises bird photos, but also a chapter on small mammals and birds' encounters with snakes and other creatures. Any reservations I had about the cost disappeared the second I opened the book. Copies are individually autographed by the photographer. Truly special.
Bence Mate is, of course, winner of the Young Nature Photographer of the Year - BBC 2002, Eric Hosking prize 2005 & 2007 and five-times Young Nature Photographer of the Year in Hungary. Finally, he won the grand prize of the
Nature Photographer of the Year in the 2006 naturArt contest. Most photographers have encountered his images in
Digital Photographer, DSLR and other magazine publications.
