Belgian, born in South Africa, Jean-Paul Vermeulen grew up in Rwanda where he became rapidly passionate for wildlife and photography. After several years in Europe, he discovered Mozambique in 1993. His interest in wildlife photography makes him spending most of his available time in the African bush and especially in the region of Gorongosa that he visited the first time in 1996. He participated in several photo exhibitions and wrote ‘O Jardim do Indico’, his first publication.