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Olivier Grunewald
French photographer and author
Olivier Grunewald (born 1959) is a French photographer and author, with the main focus on nature, landscapes and wildlife.
Olivier Grunewald was born in Paris in 1959. He started photographing birds at the age of 14.[2]
He studied commercial advertising photography at the Gobelins School of the Image, in Paris.[3] After his studies he began working as a freelance photographer specializing in sports, mountaineering and rock climbing and continued climbing and photographing for the next 10 years with a medium format camera.[4][5]
Later in his career he switched to a large format camera and began to focus more on the wild nature, and a long-term project on volcanoes. He travels all over the world and collaborates on projects with his wife, Bernadette Gilbertas, a geographer and journalist. [2][5]
He has also produced documentaries on Wild Earth for Science and Nature magazine.[6]
Since 1997, he specializes in volcanoes and travels the world to illustrate the diversity of the phenomena and the volcanic landscapes.