have been featured in publications around
the world. Images from his year-long
odyssey to assess global biodiversity at the
turn of the millennium filled an issue of
National Geographic. Lanting’s work for
the Geographic also includes profiles of
ecological hot spots, a series of photo essays
on American landscapes, and stories about
Hawaii›s volcanoes, Zambia›s wildlife, a
global survey of albatrosses, and a feature on
groundbreaking research with chimpanzees in
Senegal that is shedding new light on human
evolution. His story about Namibia›s new
super park featured an image, «Ghost Trees,
Namibia,» that became an internet sensation
when it was published in the June 2011 issue
of National Geographic.
In 2006, Lanting and his wife and partner,
Chris Eckstrom, launched The LIFE Project,
a lyrical interpretation of the history of
life on Earth, as a book, an exhibition, a
website (www.LifeThroughTime.com), and
a multimedia orchestral performance with
music by Philip Glass. The LIFE symphony
premiered in Santa Cruz, California, that
same year, and has been touring North
America and Europe ever since. ORIGINS,
a new multimedia production based on LIFE,
was performed in Geneva, Switzerland, at
the official ceremony to inaugurate CERN’s
Large Hadron Collider, the largest machine
ever built to study the origins of the universe.
LIFE was performed at the Lincoln Center
in New York to launch the World Science
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