Frans Lanting

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Cover of Frans Lanting book, Eye to Eye (1997)

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.

1 Prizes
2 Bibliography
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] 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 ^[1]

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.

[edit] 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