Famous Photographers - Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting is highly regarded amongst some of the greatest wildlife photographers of the modern era. He impressed the world with significant contributions in magazines, books and various exhibitions globally. With his journey from Amazon to Antarctica for more than twenty years, he has achieved high degree of familiarity and connection with nature and wildlife.
He has worked immensely in portraying wild creatures as representatives of a perfect ecosystem and this is what he has communicated through his publications which have helped to spread the awareness of endangered ecological treasures everywhere across the world.
Frans Lanting was once a resident photographer of the famous National Geographic magazine. His wide range of work includes a search for the magical bonobos of Central Africa to a single circumnavigation by sailboat of South Georgia Island which is located in the subantarctic. He filled up the issue of February 1999 of National Geographic with his odyssey to assess global biodiversity. Lanting's breathtaking works like volcanoes in Hawaii, series of United State landscape photographs and the Luangwa Valley in Zambia were also published by National Geographic.
In 2006, Lanting's life project took off expressive details of the history of life on Earth as book, exhibition, multimedia orchestral act and interactive website. Frans Lanting had been awarded for many of his book including Life: A Journey Through Time (2006), 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).
The Foundation Board of the University of California Santa Cruz have appointed Lanting as its trustee and he also serves as a columnist for Outdoor Photographer. Lanting also serves on the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.
Image France Lanting Credit Website: http://www.lanting.com/fl.html
