His images excite the viewer, since Lanting shares his discovery with them. He arrests photos that elucidate those aspects of nature that are rarely seen. Lanting immerses himself physically, emotionally and intellectually in the lives of plants and animals, such as lions, elephants, penguins and albatrosses. In some of these projects, his wife Christine also participated. Lanting’s works include Feathers, 1982 Islands of the West, 1985 The Albatrosses of Midway Island, 1990 Madagascar: A World Out of Time, 1990 Forgotten Edens: Exploring the World’s Wild Places, 1993 Okavango: Africa’s Last Eden, 1993 Animal Athletes, 1996 Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape, 1997 Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters With the Animal World, 1997 Living Planet: Preserving Edens of the Earth, 1999 Penguin, 2003. He also became International League of Conservation Photographers‘ Fellow.įrans Lanting has won several awards including World Press Photo, 19 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, 1991 Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, 1997 Nature and Environment Stories second prize, 1997 Knight in the Royal Order of the Golden Ark by Prince Bernhard, 2001 Lennart Nilsson Award, 2005 Photographer of the Year award by Photo -imaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association, 2008 and Cherry Kearton Award and Medal by the Royal Geographical Society, 2010. In 2012 only, Lanting was made the ambassador in Netherlands’s World Wide Fund for Nature.
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