Frans Lanting: Life, A Journey through time
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.
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About Frans Lanting
“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.
In the pursuit of his work, Frans Lanting has lived in the trees with wild macaws, camped with giant tortoises inside a volcanic crater, and documented never-before-photographed wildlife and tribal traditions in Madagascar.
The Dutch-born, California-based photographer has traveled to Botswana’s Okavango Delta, the rain forests of Borneo and the home of emperor penguins in Antarctica.
The resulting photographs, staggering in their beauty, startling in their originality have brought much-needed attention to endangered species and ecological crises throughout the world. In 2001, HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands inducted Lanting as a Knight in the Royal Order of the Golden Ark, the country’s highest conservation honour, just one of many honours he has received throughout his illustrious career.”
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