Frans Lanting (born 13 July 1951) is a Dutch National Geographic photographer, author and speaker.
Life
Lanting was born in
Rotterdam
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in Netherlands. He studied economics at the Erasmus university in Rotterdam and later immigrated to the United States. He now lives in
Santa Cruz, California, and operates a studio and gallery as well as a
stock photography service. Lanting's wife Christine Eckstrom is a writer,
editor
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, producer, and works on joint books of nature photography.
Lanting works in many different parts of the world, including the
Amazon basin, Africa and
Antarctica
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. His photographs are regularly published in ''
National Geographic'', where he served as photographer-in-residence.
He is also featured in ''
Outdoor Photographer
''Outdoor Photographer'' is an American nature photography magazine. It is published eleven times per year, monthly, save for a combined January/February issue.
History and profile
''Outdoor Photographer'' was founded by Steve Werner and firs ...
'', ''
Audubon'', and ''
Life
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as Cell signaling, signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for Cell growth, growth, reaction to Stimu ...
''. 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 of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California, combined his photography with the music of
Philip Glass. A traveling exhibition, ''Frans Lanting: LIFE'' began in fall 2006 at the Dutch
natural history museum in
Leiden
Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...
, Netherlands. The show then traveled through Europe and the United States.
Lanting is a Fellow of the
International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP).
From May through July 2012 there was an exhibition with 75 photos from ''Life: A Journey Through Time'' on the in the harbour of
Rotterdam
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.
In August 2012, Lanting became an ambassador of the
World Wide Fund for Nature in the
Netherlands
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On 25 August 2012, a special concert version of ''LIFE'' was held in the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam celebrating 50 years of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Exhibitions
*29 May – 30 August 1998: "Eye in Eye", Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterda
*5 October 2000 – 14 January 2001: "Jungles", about tropical rainforest, Naturalis in Leiden
*23 September 2006 – 2 September 2007: "LIFE", a journey through life, Naturalis in Leiden
* 9 June – 4 September 2016: Solo exhibition: Dialogue with Nature, Netherlands Photo Museum in Rotterdam
Awards
* 1988 –
World Press Photo
* 1989 – World Press Photo
* 1991 –
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
* 1997 –
Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography Award,
Sierra Club
* 1997 – 2nd prize Nature and Environment Stories, World Press Photo
* 1999 – Lanting was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society in 1999. These are awarded to distinguished persons having, from their position or attainments, an intimate connection with the science or fine art of photography or the application thereof.
* 2001 H.R.H.
Prince Bernhard inducted him as a Knight in the Royal Order of the Golden Ark, the Netherlands' highest conservation honor.
* 2005 –
Lennart Nilsson Award
* 2008 – Photographer of the Year, Photoimaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association
* 2010 – The
Royal Geographical Society's
Cherry Kearton Medal and Award
* 2021 – Art/Act Award from the
David Brower Center
Awards
* 2015 – WNF-Frans Lanting Award by
World Wide Fund for Nature
* 2018 – Wildlife Photographer of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
Books
* 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
David Doubilet (born November 28, 1946) is an underwater photographer known primarily for his work published in National Geographic Magazine where he is a contributing photographer and has been an author for 70 feature articles since 1971. He was b ...
and
Galen Rowell)
* 2000 – ''Jungles'' (with Christine Eckstrom)
* 2003 – ''Penguin'' (with Christine Eckstrom)
* 2006 – ''LIFE, A Journey Through Time''
* 2017 – ''Into Africa''
* 2022 - ''Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales'' (with Christine Eckstrom)
See also
*
Nature photography
References
External links
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"The story of life in photographs" (TED2005)
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1951 births
Living people
20th-century Dutch photographers
21st-century Dutch photographers
Nature photographers
Artists from Rotterdam
Dutch expatriates in the United States
Sierra Club awardees
National Geographic photographers