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Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Photographer

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a celebrated French photographer known for his aerial photography and environmental advocacy. Born on March 13, 1946, he has captured the beauty of the Earth from above, using his camera to raise awareness about environmental issues.

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“Will we be able to imagine a new culture of water?”

Able Culture Water Imagine New Cultures

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“It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?”

Together Waiting Power To Change

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.”

Art Earth Photography Photographer Witness

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness”

People Earth Emotion Consciousness Raises Enormous Landscape Transmit Beauty Of The Earth

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.”

Opportunity Speak Loses Environment Obsession Humankind

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.”

Path Birth Environmentalist

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.”

Writing Shows Wanted Photography Scientist Professors Lions Realised Thesis

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.”

Ifs Knows Want Believe Humans Kind Today Gone Sea Depends Percent Resources Fishes Fishing Fifth Live For Today Don't Change

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates.”

Ifs Needs Years Helping Projects Photograph Associates New Projects

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.”

Film Used National Geographic

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“The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.”

Shows Home Earth Planets Keys

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.”

Taught Photography Lions Penetrate

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.”

Men Hard Life Is Difficult Succeed Professional Life

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.”

House Saved Shock Pilots Roof New Orleans Hurricanes Katrina Helicopters Hurricane Katrina

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.”

Different Used Courses Planes Portraits Angle Harness Helicopters Framing

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.”

Years Two Important Country Moments Fighting Planets Cameras Flying Two Years Portraits Millennium

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.”

“I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.”

Used Difficult Half Technology Focus Changed Experts

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Children Ends Animal Planets Eating Adults Our Children Tragic Our World Wild Animal Biomass Vertebrates

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.”

Facts Use Energy Materials Asking Majority Seven Population Woods Meat Damage Proportion Etc Gas Minorities Overwhelming Cents Emissions Raw Materials Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.”

People Knows Men Wells Earth Air Changed Impact Convince Activist Summit Changed My Life Rio

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.”

World Giving Should Country Dream Happens Impossible Example Models West Developing Rejects Developing Countries

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the "Holy Grail" is economic growth.”

World Country Whole Desire Force Growth Blood Economic Holy Trade Determined Driving Whole World Better Life Economic Growth Consuming Driving Force Holy Grail

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Born: March 13, 1946
Known for: Photographer
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