Teake Zuidema (1953) grew up in the Netherlands where he studied cultural anthropology and specialized in the use of photography and film in anthropological research. He did his anthropological fieldwork and made a documentary film while living in a community of Maya campesinos in Mexico. After that, he became a freelance photographer. In his career he photographed wars in Middle America, religious rituals and customs in countries like Brazil and Bhutan, and he worked for travel magazines like National Geographic Traveler and newspapers like the Guardian and many others. He thought photography and darkroom techniques at the photographic center De Moor in Amsterdam. In 1995 he moved to Pittsburgh, PA where he continued his work producing photo stories about ecology, science and technology that were published widely. After moving to Savannah in 2021, he turned to landscape photography. He traveled along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina and became a member of the Kobo Gallery in downtown Savannah. In 2025, with a Sea Grant from the University of Georgia, he exhibited his project Living on the Edge at Arts Southeast in Savannah. This project shows the difficult lives of trees living on the edges of the forest and the marsh, the forest and the river, and the forest and the beach. He currently works on a photobook with coastal landscapes from Georgia and South Carolina. This book will be published by the University of Georgia Press.