World renowned photographer Frans Lanting was in Hyderabad at the Indian Photo festival 2024 being held at State Gallery of Art, Madhapur Frans Lanting is one of the great nature photographers whose work appears in books, magazines and exhibitions around the world. Over a period of 40 years, he has documented wildlife from the Amazon to Antarctica. His effort has always been to convey the message of Earth’s natural history through images and create that sense of wonder about our living planet.
Hiswork has been commissioned frequently by National Geographic where he served as a Photographer-in-Residence. He has been honored as a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in London.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.
In 2012, he was appointed as an Ambassador for World Wildlife Fund Netherlands. Frans Lanting has also received top honors from World Press Photo, the title of BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, and the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award. Can you tell us how photography came into your life? Photography started as a hobby, then it became a passion and finally here I am; a professional photographer.
I was around twenty years when I picked up the camera to express my feelings about ‘nature’. I used to take pictures and write about them. It used to be a continuous process of creating ‘photo essays’.
I believe in the power of words and images as a combinatio.