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As an accredited LAND ROVER and RED BULL photographer, Marais covers a range of global extreme sport events, shooting edge sports on commission for agencies and manufacturers.

Jacques Marais is a professional photographer and author who regularly contributes to a range of premium travel-, adventure- and outdoor magazines, both in South Africa and abroad. He writes a DIY Adrenaline column for the national newspapers in the Media 24 group, and his photographs and articles are regularly published in papers and on web sites around the world.

Marais authored a number of books, including successful outdoor titles on Hiking, Adventure Racing and Mountain Biking for RHS Publishers, with Great African Adventures featured as his latest title. As an internationally acclaimed photographer, he covers global extreme sporting events, shooting disciplines as diverse as rock climbing, freestyle motocross, adventure racing, downhill mountain biking, snowboarding and off-road expeditions.

Africa has featured big on Jacques' travel radar, with backpacking, mountaineering, rafting and kayaking trips taking him to countries as diverse as Morocco, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Uganda, Seychelles, Egypt and Madagascar. International destinations include continental Europe and Scandinavia, Argentina, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil, Vietnam, Cambodia, Australia, Iceland, USA, Mongolia, Russia and Greenland.

Jacques received GOLD and SILVER awards for images entered in the Sports Category of the SONY ProFoto Awards 2010, South Africa’s most prestigious photographic competition. He is also authoring a new book, A GUIDE TO AFRICAN ADRENALINE, with a leading publishing house, and is in the process of launching a new outdoor magazine title.

For more information, check out www.jacquesmarais.co.za

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In 2007, he was selected as one of 50 global finalists in the acclaimed ILLUME International Sports Photography Competition, and attended a gala banquet in Aspen, Colorado with top action shooters from no less than 22 countries.

Marais has again entered the Red Bull ILLUME 2010 Contest, which is currently being judged in the USA.

Regular contributor to:

South Africa: Out There Adventure Weg/Go Magazines Horizons Magazine Bicycling Magazine Go Multi Magazine Sports Illustrated Camera & Image Runners World WILD Magazine Time Out Guide PIX Magazine Sports Guide SA Paddler Good Taste Die Rapport Cape Times Die Burger Volksblad Beeld International: High Life (UK) The Guardian (UK) Men’s Health (Global) Open Skies (UAE) Magnum (Russia) Adventure Guide (UK) Washington Post (USA) Discovery Magazine (USA) Algemeine Zeitung (GER) Conde Naste Traveler (MEX)

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Jacques is a regular contributor to more than two dozen magazines and newspapers, and countless web sites around the globe. Some of these publications are listed here, and a few of his cover shots feature above. Marais’ forté is to generate media around events for a wide range of outdoor-focused brands.

As a respected author of 5 book and a regular columnist for the MEDIA 24 Group’s national newspapers, his media network rates as one of the most powerful tools in his arsenal. Add to this his fluency in Afrikaans and English, a working knowledge of Xhosa, and an impeccable knowledge of what makes South Africa tick, and you know you’re on the right track.

His company Jacques Marais Media further coordinates media- and promotion projects for premium adventure sport companies and related organisations, and his client portfolio boasts projects for Nike, Nissan, Land Rover, CapeStorm, First Ascent, Hi-Tec, Giant, Red Bull, Jeep, USN, Computershare, Ferrari, Maserati, Salomon and Duesouth.

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PROJECTS: Photo Shoots for Big Game Parks, Wilderness Safaris & Firecloud Adventures

LOCATIONS: Damaraland in Namibia, north of Madagascar and Kingdom of Swaziland

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PROJECTS: Red Bull BWA, AR World Champs, Arctic Team Challenge, Cape EPIC, and that is the tip of the iceberg.

LOCATIONS: Cape Town, RSA, northern Brazil, Greenland, all around the world, really.

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PROJECTS: Photo Shoots for BMW Bicycles, EXPRESSIONS Magazine, East Greenland Tourism, Land Rover G4 and McCain Adventure Addicts.

LOCATION: China, Hong Kong, Bolivia, Egypt, Cambodia, East Greenland, Brazil ... plus a hundred more.

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LOCATIONS: All around Cape Town. And Vrede village in Damaraland’s desert.

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PROJECTS: BOSS Models, Wedding Annual, Hi-Tec’s China Division Shoot and Riemvasmaker Portraits.

MEMBER: SAFREA (SA); WPu (UK); ITWA (USA) Telephone Number: +(27-21) 78 22 849 Mobile Phone: +(27-83) 444 5369 SKYPE Contact: jacquesmarais Facebook Profile: tjacquesmarais e-mail: jacques@jacquesmarais.co.za web: www.jacquesmarais.co.za web: www.mtbroutes.co.za web: www.ndorfin.co.za

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