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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

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No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

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You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

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For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

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