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FRANS LANTING

Source: Lava river; Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii.

ONE of the world’s most revered nature and wildlife photographers, Frans Lanting has no formal training in this field. Like his equally famous contemporary, Sebastião Salgado, Lanting is an economist, having completed a master’s degree before moving to the United States to study environmental planning. But soon after completing his Atlantic crossing, Lanting began photographing the natural world in earnest, and he never turned back…

When you were younger, what part did photography play in your life?

I was surrounded by nature of a sort when I was growing up in a small town in The Netherlands. It wasn’t nature on a grandiose scale like you ?nd in the United States or elsewhere, of course, but I’ve always been drawn to the natural world.

Picking up a camera was a natural extension, but I

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