PRESS -RELEASE, 21 Jan 2010 :- Frans Lanting, hailed as one of the world’s greatest nature photographers, will visit Sydney in March to run his first-ever Australian photographic seminars.

Sydney is one of only two destinations the Netherlands-born, US-based photographer will visit while he is in the country – the other being the Central Coast. Lanting will also exhibit a range of his visually arresting images at the Ken Duncan Galleries at Sydney and Erina Heights while he is here. The free exhibition will run from 10am-5pm daily from March 12-15 at the Erina Heights Gallery (414 The Entrance Road, Erina Heights), and from 10am-6pm daily from March 18-22 at the Sydney Gallery (73 George Street, The Rocks).

Lanting, whose Australian visit is being hosted by landscape photographer Ken Duncan, has documented wildlife and the natural world from the Amazon to Antarctica for three decades to promote understanding about the Earth and its natural history. His work is prolific and appears in books, magazines and exhibitions around the world and is frequently commissioned by National Geographic, where he served as Photographer-in-Residence.

Lanting will appear at the InterContinental Sydney on Saturday, March 20 from 9am-4pm to present a multimedia seminar entitled Every Picture Tells A Story. His expertise and tips apply to a wide range of photographic styles and his seminars repeatedly play to sell-out crowds overseas. He will run a second seminar at the Ken Duncan Gallery at Erina Heights on Saturday, March 13. Numbers at these events will be strictly limited so attendees can have personal interaction with the master.

Additionally, on Friday, March 12 from 6pm, Lanting will host an intimate screening at the Ken Duncan Gallery at Erina Heights of his highly acclaimed epic audio-visual project, LIFE: A Journey Through Time. This is the first and only time the show will be screened during Lanting’s tour. LIFE is an original multimedia orchestral performance which chronicles the history of life on Earth. Lanting’s stunning photographs are transformed into moving images by visual designer Alexander Nichols and set to a score by Philip Glass.

Originally intended for presentation in concert halls, LIFE premiered in Santa Cruz, California, in 2006, and has been performed by world-class orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Torino Symphony Orchestra in Italy. It is about to be performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. An adaptation of the presentation was performed in 2008 by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at the inauguration ceremony for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.

Lanting’s Australian visit is part of an attempt by Ken Duncan to attract a wide range of internationally renowned artists to our shores to share their talents with photographic enthusiasts, and to raise the awareness of photography, which is the art form of the new generation. Any funds raised by the visit will be returned to Duncan’s Walk a While project – a photographic education program working with indigenous youth in remote outback locations. Lanting also has a strong connection to Australian indigenous art and is looking forward to assisting this cause.

Tickets to the Lanting seminars cost $440, while tickets to the LIFE presentation are $65. Both can be purchased for $490. Bookings: (02) 4307 8408.

For more information, images, or to arrange interviews with Frans Lanting or Ken Duncan, contact Stephanie Wilson on (02) 4307 8402.

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