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JUNGLES is a personal exploration of nature in the tropics. In a collection of images made over a period of 20 years in jungles from the lowlands of the Congo to the cloud forests of the Andes, Frans Lanting interprets the splendor and the natural history of the tropical rainforest--a realm of bewildering complexity where nothing is the way it first appears. "While the essence of photography is to show, jungles hide, or at best, suggest," Lanting writes. "So I opted to show impressions of jungles to evoke a sense of their kaleidoscopic nature--the glimpses of faces that melt into shadows, the bursts of color and shimmering light."
The images in this exhibit appear in Frans Lanting’s book JUNGLES, published in the fall of 2000 by Taschen Verlag. The book features four portfolios of images that blend the results of travels years and continents apart. “Water and Light” shows the interplay of these elements with plant and animal life, "Color and Camouflage" explores the need to hide and the desire to be seen, "Anarchy and Order" features impressions of growth and movement, and "Form and Evolution" is an ode to the wonders of natural selection.
This exhibit features approximately one-third of the 140 photographs that appear in JUNGLES, as well as selected quotes from the text. In photographs that range from spectacular gatherings of rainbow-colored macaws to the misty exhalations of a forest at dawn, Frans Lanting evokes the luscious sensuality and intricate natural order of the forests that shelter the ultimate expression of life on earth. “This work is a personal vision of jungles,” Lanting says. “It is about the feeling of the forest rather than the science of it.”
Jungles Exhibit
At the National Museum of Natural History
in Leiden, The Netherlands
Jungles Exhibit
At The National Geographic Society
in Washington, DC
Interested in booking a Frans Lanting exhibit? Contact us:
Frans Lanting Studio
207 McPherson Street, Suite D
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
USA
Fax: (831) 423-8324
Email: info@lanting.com
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