Frans lanting

A personal photographic exploration of the complexity and diversity of life in the tropics by photographer, storyteller, and naturalist Frans Lanting. This unique collection of images was made over a period of 20 years in jungles from the lowlands of the Congo to the cloud forests of the Andes.

lily pads from below

FRANS LANTING has been hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time. His influential work appears in books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world. For more than two decades he has documented wildlife and our relationship with nature in environments from the Amazon to

Sumatran rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, Sabah, Borneo

The Dialogues with Nature exhibition is an expression of Lanting’s ongoing dialogue with nature. It reveals how that discourse has been influenced by art and literature as well as by science, technology, and his own experiences with wildlife and wild places on all seven continents.

In 1990 newly independent Namibia became one of the world’s first nations to write environmental protection into its constitution.

Frans Lanting - Green-crowned brilliant hummingbird, Heliodoxa jacula, feeding on ginger flower, Costus montanus, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Atlantic rainforest, Serra Dos Orgaos National Park, Brazil