Books By Laurent Baheux - Author

For nearly 20 years, Laurent has observed the upheavals of the wild world through his lens. A vocation which came to him "in reaction to the madness of men". Born in 1970, in Poitiers, he made his debut as an autodidact in the early 1990s, during the time of film, as a photographer in the regional sports press. To find a place in the profession, he moved to Paris, where he worked for major photo agencies and media specialising in international sports news. In 2002, tired of city life and bored of the hectic pace of the sporting events calendar, he turned to Africa and the wildlife of large land mammals. In 2007, after 5 years of shooting in the savannah, he began to show his snapshots of wildlife captured on the spot, instinctively, at random from his encounters with animals. In 2009, he published his first work based on his African work: "Terre des Lions" then "D'ivoire & d´ébène" in 2011 In 2013, he became a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program and participated in the Wil