Frans Lanting

Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting
Born	July 13, 1951; Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Occupation	Photographer; Author; Public Speaker;
Website	lanting.com

Frans Lanting (born July 13, 1951) is a National Geographic photographer, author and speaker.

Life

Lanting was born in Rotterdam 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 services. Lanting's wife Christine Eckstrom is a writer, editor, 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. His photographs are regularly published in National Geographic, where he served as photographer-in-residence.[1] 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 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, Netherlands. The show then traveled through Europe and the United States.

Lanting is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP).[2]

From May through July 2012 there was an exhibition with 75 photos from Life: A Journey Through Time on the SS Rotterdam in the harbour of Rotterdam.[3]

In August 2012 Lanting became an ambassador of the World Wide Fund for Nature in the Netherlands.[4] On August 25, 2012 a special concert version of LIFE was held in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam celebrating 50 years of the World Wide Fund for Nature.[5]

Expositions

29 May - 30 August 1998 "Eye in Eye", Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam
16 April - 9 May 1999 "Animals and Earth", Oude Kerk (Amsterdam) in Amsterdam
5 October 2000 - 14 January 2001 "Jungles" about tropical rainwood, 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

Prizes

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[6]
2010 – The Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award[7]

Awards

2015 - WNF-Frans Lanting Award by World Wide Fund for Nature
2018 - Wildlife Photographer of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award [8]

Works

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 and Galen Rowell)
2000 – Jungles (with Christine Eckstrom)
2003 – Pinguin (with Christine Eckstrom)
2006 – LIFE, A Journey Through Time
2017 – Into Africa

References

"Frans Lanting". Photographer Biography. National Geographic Society. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
"Frans Lanting". ILCP Fellow web site. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
Exhibition Life on the SS Rotterdam Archived May 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
Frans Lanting ambassador WNF
"LIFE Concert – WNF 50 Jaar – Campagnes Wereld Natuur Fonds". Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2013. (In Dutch)
"Phil Askey of DPReview.com Selected as PMDA Person of the Year" (Press release). Digital Photography Review. October 29, 2007. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
"Medals and Awards" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
"Wildlife Photographer of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award 2018".

External links

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[1] "Frans Lanting". Photographer Biography. National Geographic Society. Retrieved May 20, 2013.

[2] "Frans Lanting". ILCP Fellow web site. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2013.

[3] Exhibition Life on the SS Rotterdam Archived May 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[4] Frans Lanting ambassador WNF

[5] "LIFE Concert – WNF 50 Jaar – Campagnes Wereld Natuur Fonds". Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2013. (In Dutch)

[photographer_of_year_2008-6] "Phil Askey of DPReview.com Selected as PMDA Person of the Year" (Press release). Digital Photography Review. October 29, 2007. Retrieved October 30, 2007.

[RGS-7] "Medals and Awards" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2013.

[8] "Wildlife Photographer of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award 2018".