Born: Germany
Profession: Photographer, independent journalist.
Diving Licence: Padi Assisent Instructor, CMAS Gold
Age: 43

The photographer Oliver Kirsch, born in Stuttgart, was interested in photography since he was a child. His first experiments with the camera he did at the age of 8 years, when he tried to photograph animals in the zoo Wilhelma.
Next to his job Oliver kirsch always found enough time for his hobby and passion the photography. As passion diver he started with the underwater photography, where he has got a well known name.
Oliver Kirsch is working as freelancer for several dive magazines. The many publications, travel stories, reportages and pictures of wrecks (in black and white) in the magazines "Unterwasser" and "Aquanaut" show his enormous talent.
Oliver Kirsch won many prices at several photo competitions of dive magazines, he won the first price in biology at the German championship, at the festival Mondial de l´Image sous-marine in Antibes/Juan les Pins, France and at the underwaterphoto competition in Tokyo.
Since 1997 he organizes photo workshops, where he shares his knowledge of more then 900 dives with interested diver.
Oliver Kirsch works underwater with Seacam housings and Sea&Sea housings for the Nikon F5 and F90X and with the Nikon RS with all lenses. Oliver Kirsch uses flashes from Sea&Sea and Nikon.