Favourite Photographers - Frans Lanting
FRANS LANTING has been hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time. His influential work appears in books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world. For more than two decades he has documented wildlife and our relationship with nature in environments from the Amazon to Antarctica. He portrays wild creatures as ambassadors for the preservation of complete ecosystems, and his many publications have increased worldwide awareness of endangered ecological treasures in far corners of the earth.
Copyright 2004 Frans Lanting--All Rights Reserved
Copyright 2004 Frans Lanting--All Rights Reserved
Lanting's work has been commissioned frequently by National Geographic, where he is a Photographer-in-Residence. His assignments have ranged from a search for the fabled bonobos of central Africa to a unique circumnavigation by sailboat of South Georgia Island in the subantarctic. Images from his year-long odyssey to assess global biodiversity at the turn of the millennium filled the February 1999 issue of National Geographic. Lanting's recent work includes profiles of global ecological hot spots and a series on American landscapes. His cover story on Hawaii's volcanoes appears in the October 2004 issue of the magazine.
Lanting's books have received awards and acclaim: "No one turns animals into art more completely than Frans Lanting," writes The New Yorker. His books include Jungles (2000), Penguin (1999), Living Planet (1999), Eye to Eye (1997), Bonobo, The Forgotten Ape (1997), Okavango: Africa's Last Eden (1993), Forgotten Edens (1993), and Madagascar, A World Out of Time (1990). For the past several years Lanting has been working on locations around the world, with scientists ranging from paleobiologists to astrophysicists, to produce work for a new book about the evolution of life on earth, a personal photographic interpretation of life and its origins.
anting has received numerous prestigious awards. In 2001 H.R.H. Prince Bernhard inducted him as a Knight in the Royal Order of the Golden Ark, the Netherlands' highest conservation honor. He has received top honors from World Press Photo, the title of BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, and the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award. In 1999 he was honored as a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in London.
Lanting is a Trustee of the University of California Santa Cruz, and he serves on the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund and as a columnist for Outdoor Photographer.
Frans Lanting makes his home in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife and partner, Chris Eckstrom, an editor, producer, and former staff writer at National Geographic with whom he collaborates on fieldwork and publishing projects.
The Frans Lanting Image Collection is based on twenty-five years of field work on all seven continents.
These portfolios offer a glimpse of what is available.
Jungles
A unique collection of images made over a period of twenty years in jungles throughout the world.
Eye to Eye
A powerful collection of animal portraits which reveals the unique personal aesthetic Frans Lanting brings to wildlife photography, as well as the new perspective on animals as images provoke.
Penguin
An intimate portfolio made during three expeditions into the worlds of penguins.
Living Planet
A collection of images that highlight the precious web of life that the World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet campaign seeks to help save.
California's Big Sur Coast
California's Big Sur coast has been called the "greatest meeting place of ocean and land." Between the unrivalled offshore abundance of marine mammals (sea otters, migrating gray whales, and expanding elephant seal colonies) and the rugged mountains of Ventana wilderness, lie just a few miles. In between, arid-climate yuccas brush up to fog-loving redwoods.
World View
Classic images by Frans Lanting and the stories of how they were made. Published by Outdoor Photographer and available for syndication to other magazines.
PDN Master Series Eye to Eye
An online feature produced for the Photo District News Master Series.
Lanting's books have received awards and acclaim: "No one turns animals into art more completely than Frans Lanting," writes The New Yorker. His books include Jungles (2000), Penguin (1999), Living Planet (1999), Eye to Eye (1997), Bonobo, The Forgotten Ape (1997), Okavango: Africa's Last Eden (1993), Forgotten Edens (1993), and Madagascar, A World Out of Time (1990). For the past several years Lanting has been working on locations around the world, with scientists ranging from paleobiologists to astrophysicists, to produce work for a new book about the evolution of life on earth, a personal photographic interpretation of life and its origins.
anting has received numerous prestigious awards. In 2001 H.R.H. Prince Bernhard inducted him as a Knight in the Royal Order of the Golden Ark, the Netherlands' highest conservation honor. He has received top honors from World Press Photo, the title of BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, and the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award. In 1999 he was honored as a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in London.
Lanting is a Trustee of the University of California Santa Cruz, and he serves on the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund and as a columnist for Outdoor Photographer.
Frans Lanting makes his home in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife and partner, Chris Eckstrom, an editor, producer, and former staff writer at National Geographic with whom he collaborates on fieldwork and publishing projects.
The Frans Lanting Image Collection is based on twenty-five years of field work on all seven continents.
These portfolios offer a glimpse of what is available.
Jungles
A unique collection of images made over a period of twenty years in jungles throughout the world.
Eye to Eye
A powerful collection of animal portraits which reveals the unique personal aesthetic Frans Lanting brings to wildlife photography, as well as the new perspective on animals as images provoke.
Penguin
An intimate portfolio made during three expeditions into the worlds of penguins.
Living Planet
A collection of images that highlight the precious web of life that the World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet campaign seeks to help save.
California's Big Sur Coast
California's Big Sur coast has been called the "greatest meeting place of ocean and land." Between the unrivalled offshore abundance of marine mammals (sea otters, migrating gray whales, and expanding elephant seal colonies) and the rugged mountains of Ventana wilderness, lie just a few miles. In between, arid-climate yuccas brush up to fog-loving redwoods.
World View
Classic images by Frans Lanting and the stories of how they were made. Published by Outdoor Photographer and available for syndication to other magazines.
PDN Master Series Eye to Eye
An online feature produced for the Photo District News Master Series.
