Nature, 2nd prize
Olivier Grunewald
Le Figaro Magazine / Grands Reportages
Le Figaro Magazine / Grands Reportages
16 September, 2003
Mount Tolbachik's 1975 eruption lasted a year and a half, sending fountains of lava over two kilometers into the air, and emitting clouds of ash and toxic substances that asphyxiated and bleached surrounding forests. This peninsula 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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