Laurent Baheux (; born 1970) is a French photographer known for high contrast black and white photographs of nature and wildlife.
Baheux's work about Africa and wildlife is featured in art photography galleries worldwide and in awareness campaigns for conservation and environmental organizations including World Wildlife Fund (WWF), GoodPlanet Foundation, and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He is a UNEP Goodwill Ambassador for the anti-poaching initiative with images being featured in the "Wild and Precious" International Airport Exhibition."Wild and Precious Exhibit Travels from Bangkok to Nairobi and Beijing", Press release of UNEP, 7 november 2013
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Drawing inspiration from photographers such as Ansel Adams, Peter Beard,"He makes it his exclusive mission to capture the beauty of a world on borrowed time and is hugely inspired by masters of photography like Peter Beard", Life Force Magazine, Oct 2014 Henri Cartier-Bresson,"Laurent Baheux quotes Henri Cartier-Bresson, a famous French photographer, as saying that the photograph always offers itself up to the photographer, who should take the decisive moment by pressing the shutter", EJINSIGHT, Hong Kong, May 1, 2015 Sebastiao Salgado and Richard Avedon,"Laurent Baheux, Africa is a testimonial", PRIVATE Photoreview, 21 november 2014 Baheux's images are high contrast with very deep blacks. His work is often associated with that of portraitists"Black and White wildlife portraits by Laurent Baheux", PHOTOGRAPHY OFFICE, Feb 19 2015 such as the French photography Studio Harcourt."Africa, La Bible", The French National Radio FRANCE INFO, Paris, 23 may 2014
Baheux works with NIKON"The Pros share their tips", I AM NIKON Blog, Sept 14 2012 products and uses very large lenses to capture the animal's personalities without disturbing their environment.
Award & Honors 2007 Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year in the "Creative Vision of Nature" category for his image Lions tail taken in Kenya (Africa) in 2006."Shell wildlife photographer of the Year 2007", The Guardian , London, 27 october 2007. 2008 WWF Biodiversity price of the International Festival of the Environment Image of Paris (France)."WWF Biodiversity price for Laurent Baheux", Photosapiens , Paris, 4 June 2008. 2014 Honorable mention in Portfolio category - Black and White Magazine."B&W : 2014 Portfolio", Black and White magazine, October 2014. 2014 Honorable mention in Portfolio category - Adore Noir Magazine."B&W : 2014 Portfolio", Adore Noir Magazine, December 2014. 2014 Honorable mention in Animal World category - World Mountains, Nature and Adventure Photography Competition Memorial Maria Luisa."Winners and highly commended mentions 25 MML-PHOTO", Memorial Maria Luisa, February 2015. 2014 Honorable mention in Wildlife/Animal category - Fine Art Photography Awards."Wildlife/Animal Professional Category Winners FAPA 2014", Fine Art Photography Awards, July 2015. 2016 Nominated at German Phonebook Award German Phonebooks Award with The Family Album of Wild Africa (teNeues & YellowKorner conditions) 2016 Honorable mention in Wildlife category - Moscow International Foto Awards."Wildlife Professional Category Winners MIFA 2016", Moscow International Foto Awards, June 2016.
Books 2008 Photographes de nature, Actes Sud 2009 Terre des lions, Altus 2010 Africa (Portfolio n°1), YellowKorner 2011 D’ivoire et d’ébène, Altus 2012 Africa (art book edition), YellowKorner 2013 Africa (Classic edition), YellowKorner 2013 Wild and Precious, La Martinière with GoodPlanet 2015 America (Portfolio n°27), Yellowkorner 2015 The Family Album of Wild Africa, teNeues and Yellowkorner editions 2016 The Family Album of Wild Africa Collector's Prints, teNeues and Yellowkorner editions 2017 Ice is Black, teNeues editions 2017 The Family Album of Wild Africa, Small format edition, teNeues editions 2018 Animalité, avec Audrey Jougla, Atlande editions
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