Ecology
Cristina Mittermeier was hardly seeking to change the world with photography when starting her career as a marine biologist. Trained as a scientist and armed with a degree in biochemical engineering in the exploitation of marine resources from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), in Mexico, Mittermeier’s early work consisted largely of scientific papers filled with the hard data of numbers and words. A prime influence in her work was biologist Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book, The Population Bomb, which she read as a