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FRANS LANTING
FRANS LANTING has been hailed as one
of the great photographers of our time. His
influential work appears in books, magazines,
and exhibitions around the world. Born in
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he earned a
master’s degree in economics then moved
to the United States to study environmental
planning. Soon after, he began photographing
the natural world--and never turned back.
For three decades he has documented wildlife
from the Amazon to Antarctica to promote
understanding about the Earth and its natural
history through images that convey a passion
for nature and a sense of wonder about our
living planet.
“Frans Lanting has set the standards for a
whole generation of wildlife photographers,’’
according to the BBC. “Mr. Lanting’s
photographs take creatures that have
become ordinary and transform them into
haunting new visions,” writes renowned
biologist Dr. George Schaller in The New
York Times. “As a chronicler of natural
history today, Frans Lanting is a singular,
extraordinary talent,” says Thomas Kennedy,
former Director of Photography at National
Geographic. “He has the mind of a scientist,
the heart of a hunter, and the eyes of a poet.”
Lanting›s work is commissioned frequently
by National Geographic, where he served
as a Photographer-in-Residence. His
assignments have ranged from a first look
at the fabled bonobos of the Congo to a
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unique circumnavigation by sailboat of
South Georgia Island in the subantarctic. In
a remote part of the upper Amazon Basin, he
spent weeks on platform towers to obtain rare
tree-canopy views of wild macaws. He lived
for months with seabirds on isolated atolls
in the Pacific Ocean, followed lions through
the African night, and camped among giant
tortoises inside a volcano in the Galápagos.
Lanting did pioneering work in Madagascar
and in Botswana›s Okavango Delta, and
his photo essays about Borneo›s rainforest,
emperor penguins in Antarctica, and the
plight of puffins in the North Atlantic,