Gitta Seidel – Professional curriculum

1976                              USA - New York City, started in photography

1980                              Europe – Germany, first major photo exhibition

1982                   “            Horse trek/photography

1984                   “           Italy, horse trek, exclusive/Italian Geographic “Airone”

til ’88                  “            Italy, photojournalism, horse/nature related

1989-’91        Australia – Horse trek, sponsored by Australian Geographic Magazine

1991—96            “           Photography - Horse related: horse shows/studs

                                          Commercial: tourist catalogues, book, photo cards.

1997                    “           Mule-buggy trek/photography

2000                   “            Official photographer/press liaison on 8000 kilometres horse                                        relay ride Broome, WA – Sydney  (Heritage Horse Ride)

2001 – present "            Member of the working group for WHIP program (Wild Horse Incarceration Prevention Program): Extensive travel/research photography on brumbies/feral horses.This program has been initiated here in Australia by President of the Snowy River Shire, Ross McKinney.

2002 Various photojournalistic interests/The Year of the Outback.

Gitta Seidel – Curriculum / Solo Horse Treks

 1972                              USA –      Started being interested in horses and riding

1981               Europe – Germany-Switzerland: Official delegate for Germany in occasion of the Fifth Centenary of Canton Solothurn 1.200 km – 3 weeks

1982                    “           Cape Passero (Sicily), Italy – Cape North, Norway, hence a  trek from the most southern point of Europe to its most northern. 7000 km – 7 months

1984                    “           Italy – Roundtrip of Italian peninsula: story exclusive to

                                          ‘Airone’, Italy’s Geographic Magazine.

                                          4500 km – 6 months

1988                    “           Italy – Across Sardinia, mapping a horse/tourist trail for the

                                          Sardinian Tourist Commission.

                                          1000 km – 6 weeks

1989-91                   Australia Riding the Bicentennial National Horse Trail

     Melbourne, Vic. – Cooktown, Qld.

     5300 km – 1 year 8 months

1997                    “          Across the Nullarbor Plain by mule and buggy – Fundraiser for the RFDS

                                         1700 km – 3 months(not included 6 weeks hospitalisation due to feral camels, scaring my mule into bolting and injuring me.)

2000                    “          Spring Valley Heritage Horse Ride: Non-riding participant on  8thousand kilometres long horse ride Broome, WA to Sydney, NSW, accompanying the ride as official photographer/press liaison.

2002                    “         “Ride for Youth of the Outback”, Darwin-Adelaide