Frans Lanting

Frans Lanting, (born July 13,1951) was born in Rotterdam and is a Dutch nature photographer specializing in wildlife photography.

Lanting emigrated to the United States after being educated in the Netherlands. He now lives in Santa Cruz, California and operates a studio and gallery, as well as a stock photography services. Lanting's wife Chris Eckstrom is a writer, editor, producer, and works on joint books of nature photography.

Lanting works in many different parts of the world including Amazonia, Africa and Antarctica. His photographs are regularly published in National Geographic, for which he is a photographer-in-residence. He is also featured in Outdoor Photographer, Audubon, and Life. A 2005 exhibit in the Field Museum of Natural History entitled "Jungles" focused on the plants and animals of the rainforest.

Lanting's 2006 exhibit, "Life: A Journey Through Time", part of the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz, California, combined his photography with the music of Philip Glass. A traveling exhibit, "Frans Lanting: LIFE" begins in Fall 2006 at the Dutch natural history museum in Leiden, Netherlands. The show then travels through Europe and the US.

Prizes

*1988 - World Press Photo
*1989 - World Press Photo
*1991 - Wildlife Photographer of the Year, BBC
*1997 - Ansel Adams Award, Sierra Club
*1997 - 2nd prize Nature and Environment Stories, World Press Photo
*2005 - Lennart Nilsson Award
*2008 - Photographer of the Year, Photoimaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association cite press release
title = Phil Askey of DPReview.com Selected as PMDA Person of the Year
publisher = Digital Photography Review
date = 2007-10-29
url = http://www.dpreview.com/news/0710/07103004pmdapersonofyear.asp
accessdate = 2007-10-30 ]

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.

Bibliography

*1982 - Feathers
*1985 - Islands of the West
*1990 - The Albatrosses of Midway Island
*1990 - Madagascar, A World Out of Time
*1993 - Forgotten Edens, Exploring the World's Wild Places (with Christine Eckstrom)
*1993 - Okavango, Africa's Last Eden (with Christine Eckstrom)
*1996 - Animal Athletes
*1997 - Bonobo, The Forgotten Ape (with Frans de Waal)
*1997 - Eye to Eye, Intimate Encounters With the Animal World (with Christine Eckstrom)
*1999 - Living Planet, Preserving Edens of the Earth. (with David Doubilet en Galen Rowell)
*2000 - Jungles (with Christine Eckstrom)
*2003 - Penguin (with Christine Eckstrom)
*2006 - Life, A journey Through Time

ee also

* Nature photography

External links

* [http://www.lanting.com Frans Lanting's main website]
* [http://www.lifethroughtime.com/ Life Through Time website]
* [http://www.franslanting.com/gallery/index.php Frans Lanting stock photography]

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