Michael Freeman, is a British author, photographer and journalist. In 1978 Athens the first book giving him title-credit as a photographer, was published in a Time-Life series called The World?s Great Cities. This was followed by two other books, "Guardians of the North-West Frontier: The Pathans" in 1982 and "Wayfarers of the Thai Forest: The Akha" in 1982, both in the subsequent Time-Life series "Peoples of the Wild". Freeman has had a long working relationship with the Smithsonian magazine, and has photographed 40 stories between 1978 and 2008. One of his main specialisations has been Asian culture, architecture and archaeology, and he has photographed and written many books on these, including five on Angkor. The first of these, "Angkor: The Hidden Glories" was used in filming the 1992 non-verbal film Baraka, and Freeman is one of the 8 cast in the accompanying 2008 documentary "Baraka: A Closer Look". He has written more than 40 books on the subject of photography, in particular its practice, and for two of these he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc in 1990 from the Mus�e Fran�ais de la Photographie in Bi�vres, France. 

January 1st, 1945 in (Age 79)