Nature, 2nd prize
Olivier Grunewald
Le Figaro Magazine / Grands Reportages
Le Figaro Magazine / Grands Reportages
07 September, 2002
Since Mount Karimsky's last eruption in 1996, it has regularly spouted plumes of ash up to five kilometers high. It is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kamchatka peninsula, which presents a landscape of geysers, boiling lakes and active volcanoes.
Olivier Grunewald
Olivier Grunewald was born in Paris in 1959. He started photographing birds at the age of 14. After studying commercial advertising photography at the Gobelins school of images, ...
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