Born: Switzerland
Profession: photographer
Diving Licence: Instr.XXX, CMAS / Master Instr. PADI.
Age: 54
In his childhood Kurt was impressed by the books about coralls and sharkes of the great pioneer Hans Hass. After first adventurous dives with self built dive equipment in the Zurich Lake, he started his first dive travel to the red Sea. Kurts father, a photographer, was surely responsible for his later successes. With a solid photographer apprenticeship and the obsession to documente the underwaterworld in his sea-bag, he started his first journeys. At the start of his career Kurt used only 6x6 cameras of Rolleimaarin, Haselblad and Bronica. In the eighties he changed to a 35mm camera of Nikon, since that time there are hardly no kind of view-finder cameras and camera housing systems, with those Kurt Amsler did not operate.
After some years Kurts work was well known in the "scene" and the international success was only a question of time. In the meantime Kurt Amsler is one of the most published author of reports of the underwaterworld. The enumeration of all his publications in magazines and own book projects is too much for this report.
High points in his career was the prize for the world- wide best underwaterphotography book 1997 in Antibes and the film "The Maldives - Paradise Transformed" in which Kurt Amsler worked as actor and behind the camera. The stage, where his childhood dreams started.     www.photosub.com