Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Yann Arthus- Bertrand ( born March 13, 1946 in Paris ) is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. He works as a photo journalist in the field of sport and nature. His spectacular aerial photographs in books and films made ​​him internationally known.

Life

Yann Arthus -Bertrand comes from a family of jewelers and medalists. He initially worked as an assistant director and also appeared as an actor in two movies (1965 and 1970). In 1976, the trained biologist, who had managed a zoo in France, with his wife Anne for three years in the Kenyan Masai Mara National Park to document the life of a lion family photographs. To these behavioral studies finance, he let the hot air balloon used for observation purposes to tourists and discovered his passion for photography from a bird's perspective. More photo reports joined, he took a total of ten car rallies Paris -Dakar in part, to the tennis tournaments in the French Open, the annual Salon international de l'agriculture in Paris and also photographed the zoologist Dian Fossey with mountain gorillas in Rwanda.

Arthus -Bertrand published in internationally renowned magazines such as Paris Match, Le Figaro Magazine, star, Geo, Airone, Life and National Geographic. In a book about Paris, he used the first time in decades, the perspective " from above".

Commitment to environmental protection

In 1993 Arthus -Bertrand funded by the UNESCO Project Earth from above ( Earth from Above ), a photographic and film inventory of the earth. A selection of these pictures he had issue to the boulevards of Paris outdoors. In this large-format images that were attached in part to the wrought iron fences of the Jardin de Luxembourg, also illuminated at night. As a traveling exhibition designed, these images were shown in 110 cities.

Published in 2004 the corresponding one-hour feature film Earth from Above by director Renaud Delourme.

In 2005, Arthus -Bertrand, the non-governmental organization Good Planet, an environmental organization that has been converted into a foundation in 2009. Apart from various information campaigns on environmental protection launched Arthus -Bertrand in the framework of two main projects:

• The project Action Carbone allows to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced companies, institutions and individuals, and to compensate.
• In Internet Project 7 billion Others it comes Arthus -Bertrand why, in addition to his other pictorial representations of the interaction between man and nature, now to let people get a word in, especially with respect to their - for the behavior towards nature essential - life experiences, ideas, fears, hopes and desires. To this end, he and six other cameramen filmed during four years (2003-2007) about 6,000 people ( about 1 ppm of the world's population) in 75 countries around the world in responding to each forty same questions, such as: " What do you have of learned your parents? "," What do you want to pass on to your children? "," What practical tests you had to pass? "," How do you feel the love? "," What is war, in your opinion? "or" What do you think happens after death? ". Many of the answers are on the internet in the form of short videos viewed - translated in French or English depending on language.

2009 appeared his biggest movie Home (in the sense of " our home, the earth " ), the first fully filmed from the air worldwide documentary feature-length films, is understood as a commitment to the conservation and as a " tribute to mother earth." What Arthus -Bertrand will actually show with this documentary, though, is the change, the deformation and destruction of the planet by humans. As Al Gore - with his film An Inconvenient Truth - even Arthus -Bertrand is convinced that the film was the appropriate medium to arouse the people and to make them aware of this. In order to achieve this goal as much as possible, consisted Arthus -Bertrand from the beginning that the film after completion without film rights and everyone should be freely available - especially on the internet.

Quotes

"Change makes you happy when you work for a better future. "

"We bring in barely 200 years times the balance messed up, which was created in over four billion years of the Earth. "

Awards

• 2005: Peintre Officiel de la Marine ( "Official marine painter " ) of the French Navy
• 2006: Knight of the Legion of Honor
• 2008: Prix Georges Pompidou
• 2008: Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite
• 2009: Champions of Earth Award
• 2013: Knight of the Ordre du Mérite agricole
• 2013: Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Works

• Lions. Texts by Anne Arthus- Bertrand. Mosaic, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-576-10308-2.
• Morocco. A portrait in aerial images. Texts by Anne Arthus- Bertrand. RV, Ostfildern 1994, ISBN 3-575-22014- X.
• Critters land. Texts by Alain Raveneau. Müller Rüschlikon, Cham 1994, ISBN 3-275-01099-9.
• Greece from above. Texts by Janine Trotereau. RV, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-575-22018-2.
• New York. A portrait in aerial images. Lyrics by Jon Tauranac. RV, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-575-22020-4.
• Peter -Matthias Gaede (ed. ): The Earth from Above. A project of the century. Frederking and Thaler, 1999, ISBN 3-89405-408-5.
• Cats. Texts by Danièle Laruelle. Heyne, München 2001, ISBN 3-453-18643-5.
• Dogs. Texts by André Pittion - Rossillon. Heyne, München 2001, ISBN 3-453-18646- X.
• The Earth from Above - told for children. Texts by Hubert Comte. Knesebeckstraße, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89660-117-2.
• The earth from above. Day after day. Knesebeckstraße, Munich.

• Volume 1: 2001, ISBN 3-89660-104-0.
• Volume 2: 2003, ISBN 3-89660-181-4.
• Volume 3: 2007, ISBN 978-3-89660-416-3.
• Volume 4: 2009, ISBN 978-3-86873-032-6.

• Horses. Texts by Jean -Louis Gouraud. Frederking and Thaler, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89405-632-0.
• Turkey from above. Texts by Janine Trotereau. Knesebeckstraße, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-250-0.
• Occupation: Photographer. Between Heaven and Earth. Biography. Texts by Sophie Troubac. Knesebeckstraße, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-210-1.
• France from above. Texts by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor. Knesebeckstraße, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89660-347-7.
• Home - Detect, inform, ask, understand, act. Knesebeckstraße, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86873-114-9.
• Home - We save our earth. Texts by Isabelle Delannoy. Knesebeckstraße, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86873-147-7.
• 6 milliards d' autres - Un portrait de l' Homme exceptionnel aujourd'hui. Relasisation Sibylle d' Orgeval un Baptiste Rouget - Luchaire. Éditions de La Martinière, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7324-3799-6.

Movies

• The earth from above - with the photographer Yann Arthus -Bertrand around the world. France 2004 Director: Emilio Pacull, German First broadcast: July 3, 2006, WDR
• Home. Documentary, France 2009
• Paris, seen from the sky. Artistic Short Films, France 2010
• Metz and the country, as seen from the sky. Artistic Short Films, France 2013