Laurent Geslin
Conservationist photographer and videographer
After being a wildlife guide in France, South Africa and Namibia, Laurent moved to London planning to do a feature on urban foxes... and ending up staying there ten years, becoming a professional photographer in the process. He works on press and portrait photography for six months each year in the English capital and the rest of the year he travels in diverse locations such as Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, India, and Ethiopia.
Even though Laurent has extended his scope of interest to portraiture and reportage in the last few years, he regularly comes back to his first passion: wildlife photography.
His previous book, “Urban Safari” shows how animals modify their survival strategy to the endless expansion of our towns. One of his biggest photographic exhibitions took place at the United Nations in Geneva, focusing on experiences of forced exile in Western Africa.
For the last ten years, Laurent has been part of the KORA team a group of scientists specialized in predators in Switzerland. The KORA is mainly working on european lynx, and Laurent illustrates their work on the field.
In parallel, he built up a project to allow him to photograph the European lynx in the wild, either with camera traps or in hides full time, and has spent countless hours searching and waiting for the elusive cat. He is now working on a documentary that will show for the very first time images of wild European lynx.
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