Francis Latreille Author

Francis Latreille is a French American artist and photographer whose works are published worldwide, including Newsweek, Life,Time, Géo and Paris Match among many others. He is passionate about those areas threatened by global warming, and this is reflected in his work.  He was awarded a World Press Photo Award for Science & Technology in Amsterdam in 1998, and has held two exhibitions in Washington D.C. .

Born in 1948 in Loiret, France he makes a decision in 1967 that will change his life and travels to Israel to ‘cover’ the Six-Day war. Three months later, on his return to France, a reporter and photographer was born. In 1973 he moved to France-Soir, for which he travels the most sensitive places in the world.

In 1995, he accompanied explorer Jean-Louis Etienne on North Pole expeditions in Antarctica, Patagonia, Spitsbergen, Greenland, Siberia. From 1998, he participated in the “Mammuthus” expeditions in Siberia and in 2000, he won the first prize at the International Scoop Festival of Angers.

Preface by Claude Lorius eminent French glaciologist. He is director emeritus of research at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). He was the director of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement in Grenoble from 1983 to 1988.

Translated by Anthony Roberts