Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting (born 13 July 1951) is a Dutch 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 service. 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. 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). 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. In August 2012, Lanting became an ambassador of the World Wide Fund for Nature in the Netherlands. 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.