Black and White Photography | "George Dian Balan" | Featured Artist
George Dian Balan is a multi-award winning fine art wildlife photographer, scientist, author, inspirational speaker and world records discoverer, specialised in world record and world class individuals in iconic megafauna species.
He creates timeless images by using an immersive approach, portraying as never seen before giants that have captured our imagination. The resulting frames are cinematic, of the kind that one expects from a Jurassic Park opening scene. He pays much attention not only to the subject selection, perspective and composition, but also to body postures. The artistic question he asked himself is: “if a Statue, a Monument were to be raised to a species, what would that look like?”
Dian has over 10 years of artistic, scientific and conservation experience working with big-tusked African and Asian elephants and is the most awarded photographer in this field. Over 30 images with big-tusked elephants were distinguished (often multiple times) in prestigious photography competitions, such as MontPhoto, GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Re-Focus Awards, Fine Art Photography Awards, Memorial Maria Luisa, MonoVisions Awards, Monochromatic Awards, Px3 Paris, Black & White Photo Awards, HIPA, Px3 Paris and Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year. In addition, Dian won Photographer of the Year: Wildlife in the Annual Re-Focus Awards 2024, he was a finalist in HIPA COP 28 (2024), First Prize Winner (Montier, 2020), Grand Prize Winner (Untamed, 2018) and a finalist in Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (2016).
His pictures are standard-setting, exquisite and compelling. They were published amongst others by Nat Geo, BBC Earth, Forbes, GEO, Wild Planet Photo Magazine, Asian Geographic, Africa Geographic, Cranium, Ancient Origins, Nat'Images and Pachyderm, including several times as covers.
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