An Evening With an Artist: Frans Lanting
Session E7
Thursday, January 31 ■ 7:00 p.m. - 9:00
p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall
The Photo Imaging Education Association (PIEA) is excited to announce that famed
photographer Frans
Lanting will be featured in the Evening with an Artist series during the PMA 08
in Las Vegas.
Lanting, who is best known for his nature photography, has been featured in books,
magazines and exhibitions around the world during his illustrious career. For more than two decades he has
documented wildlife and man’s relationship with nature from the Amazon to Antartica. Through his work he has
increased worldwide awareness of endangered species and environments around the globe. |
Frans Lanting,
National Geographic photographer and author of Life: A Journey Through Time |
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Lanting has lived for months with seabirds on isolated atolls in the
Pacific Ocean, followed lions through the African night, camped among giant tortoises inside a volcano in the
Galapagos and spent weeks in tree canopies in the Amazon photographing wild macaws.
His numerous books include Bonobo, The Forgotten Ape
(1997), Living Planet (1999), Jungles (2000), Forgotten Edens (1993) and his most
recent project, Life: A Journey Through Time, which is a book and multimedia production on the
evolution of life on earth. Copies of Life will be on sale following his presentation and Lanting
will autograph copies.
Lanting has received numerous awards for his work, including the Ansel
Adams Award from the Sierra Club, Wildlife Photographer of the Year from the BBC and in 2001 he was inducted
as a Knight in the Royal Order of the Golden Ark, the Netherlands’ highest conservation honor.
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