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Exhibitions Consulted Works

2020

Beginning of the making of the new film FRANCE UNE HISTOIRE D’AMOUR. Moving Studio in France to photograph the French people. Here, “Le Portrait des Tropéziens” in August 2020.

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2020

WOMAN, Release 2020, a film by Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand. A film composed of 3,000 interviews of women from 40 countries.— See the trailer

2018

‘Laudato si’, in order to finance an orphanage in Brazzaville, Yann Arthus-Bertrand put in pictures the encyclical letter of Pope François. Since then, several Green Churches wish to exhibit the photographs of the book.

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2017

On 6th December 2017, Installation by Yann Arthus-Bertrand of the Academy of Fine Arts, Institut de France, of Sebastiao Salgado, elected as a member of the photography section in the chair previously occupied by Lucien Clergue.

2017

opening of the first centre dedicated to Humanism and the Ecology in Paris, Le Domaine de Longchamp. A GoodPlanet Foundation project.

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (5)

2015

release of the film HUMAN

2012

with Michaël Pitiot, Yann co-produced the film Planète Océan

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (8)

2009

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations’ programme for the environment

2009

worldwide release in 181 countries of the full-length filmHome

2008

projection in the Paris Grand Palais of 6 Billion Others which has become 7 Billion Others, a collection of testimonies from the four corners of the Planet on what separates us and what binds us together.

2006

à 2011

Seen from the Air, a documentary series in which each episode examines a particular ecological problem.

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (11)

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (12)

2006

Yann Arthus-Bertrand was, together with Lucien Clergue, one of the first photographers elected to the French Academy of Fine Arts when a new section devoted to photography was created

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (13)

2005

creation in Paris of the GoodPlanet Foundation

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (14)

2000

First outdoor photographic exhibition of The Earth from the Air on the railings around the Luxembourg Garden in Paris.

2000

launching of the book The Earth from the Air. Immediate international success, with, today in 2017, more than 4,2 million copies sold and translation into 27 languages

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (17)

1992

Rio Climate Agreement. Yann decided to undertake an assessment of the state of the planet and with the sponsorship of UNESCO, launched himself into his ambitious photographic project «The Earth from the Air»

Years

1990

In tandem with the aerial photography, he engaged in more personal work, examining in particular the relationship between man and animal which led to the publication of the books Horses and Bestiaux

Years

1980

journalist, reporter, international photographer specialised in in-depth news featurereporting on adventure, sport, nature, animals and of course in aerial photography.

1981

publication of his first photographic book; «Lions»

to earn his living and finance his study of the Lions, Yann became a montgolfier pilot. It was then that he discovered the earth seen from the sky and taught himself aerial photography

1976

à 1978

at the age of 30, Yann went with his wife Anne to live in Kenya in the Masaï Mara National Park so as to study the behavior of a family of lions which he photographed each day for three years

1967

à 1975

Yann Arthus-Bertrand worked in the Saint-Augustin Chateau animal park, in Château-sur-Allier in France

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (27)

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (28)

1963

at the age of seventeen Yann became an assistant producer then cinema actor

1946

birth in Paris

2019

WOMAN, Release 2019, a film by Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand. A film composed of 3,000 interviews of women from 40 countries.— See the trailer

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (29)

2018

‘Laudato si’, in order to finance an orphanage in Brazzaville, Yann Arthus-Bertrand put in pictures the encyclical letter of Pope François. Since then, several Green Churches wish to exhibit the photographs of the book.

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (30)

2017

On 6th December 2017, Installation by Yann Arthus-Bertrand of the Academy of Fine Arts, Institut de France, of Sebastiao Salgado, elected as a member of the photography section in the chair previously occupied by Lucien Clergue.

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (31)

2017

opening of the first centre dedicated to Humanism and the Ecology in Paris, Le Domaine de Longchamp. A GoodPlanet Foundation project.

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (32)

2015

release of the film HUMAN

2012

with Michaël Pitiot, Yann co-produced the film Planète Océan

2009

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations’ programme for the environment

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (35)

2009

worldwide release in 181 countries of the full-length film Home

2008

projection in the Paris Grand Palais of 6 Billion Others which has become 7 Billion Others, a collection of testimonies from the four corners of the Planet on what separates us and what binds us together.

2006

à 2011

Seen from the Air, a documentary series in which each episode examines a particular ecological problem.

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (38)

2006

Yann Arthus-Bertrand was, together with Lucien Clergue, one of the first photographers elected to the French Academy of Fine Arts when a new section devoted to photography was created

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (39)

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (40)

2005

creation in Paris of the GoodPlanet Foundation

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (41)

2000

First outdoor photographic exhibition of The Earth from the Air on the railings around the Luxembourg Garden in Paris.

2000

launching of the book The Earth from the Air. Immediate international success, with, today in 2017, more than 4,2 million copies sold and translation into 27 languages

1992

Rio Climate Agreement. Yann decided to undertake an assessment of the state of the planet and with the sponsorship of UNESCO, launched himself into his ambitious photographic project «The Earth from the Air»

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (44)

Years

1990

In tandem with the aerial photography, he engaged in more personal work, examining in particular the relationship between man and animal which led to the publication of the books Horses and Bestiaux

Years

1980

journalist, reporter, international photographer specialised in in-depth news featurereporting on adventure, sport, nature, animals and of course in aerial photography.

1981

publication of his first photographic book; «Lions»

1976

à 1978

to earn his living and finance his study of the Lions, Yann became a montgolfier pilot. It was then that he discovered the earth seen from the sky and taught himself aerial photography

at the age of 30, Yann went with his wife Anne to live in Kenya in the Masaï Mara National Park so as to study the behavior of a family of lions which he photographed each day for three years

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (53)

1967

à 1975

Yann Arthus-Bertrand worked in the Saint-Augustin Chateau animal park, in Château-sur-Allier in France

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (54)

1963

at the age of seventeen Yann became an assistant producer then cinema actor

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTO | YAB Biography | Official (55)

1946

birth in Paris

Exhibitions

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