Shades of Nature // Heinrich van den Berg
October has rolled around and with it comes a new exhibition at FotoZA. We are excited to announce that we now have "Shades Of Nature" by Heinrich van den Berg on display in the gallery for the month of October 2020.
This beautiful body of work is a selection of images from van den Berg's book entitled 'Shades Of Nature'. It showcases some of his images captured over the past 22 years during his travels as a professional wildlife photographer.
The printing of the images has been generously sponsored by Canon South Africa and has been printed on their premium range of photographic paper. Best viewed in person to appreciate the intricacies of the prints and how much detail is rendered.
The exhibition will be on display until the end of October 2020 and is free to view. All of the images are also available for purchase either as the sample print or on Fine Art Archival/Canvas Paper.
About Heinrich van den Berg
“The list of world-class black-and-white wildlife photographers is a short one, but even if it were pages long, South African photographer Heinrich van den Berg certainly would belong near the top.” Outdoor Photographer Magazine (USA)
Johannesburg-based photographer Heinrich van den Berg specializes in nature, environmental, and travel photography. He has spent many years in the field, capturing images of African wildlife and the natural beauty of the continent.
Highly acclaimed as a wildlife and nature photographer, he has won various international photographic awards.
He is ranked 8th internationally for wildlife photography according to Wikipedia’s Wildlife Photographers of the Year rankings which is based on the number of images accepted in this prestigious competition. Twenty of his images have been awarded in the competition.
He was the first photographer to win the Eric Hoskings Award of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year for two consecutive years.
He has also won the international Camel Trophy Photographic Competition and was one of the official international photographers for the Camel Trophy in 1998.
Additionally, he was the overall winner of the international Fuji Getaway Photographer of the Year award in 2005.
In 1998 Van den Berg left his profession as a civil engineer to become a full-time wildlife photographer. Since then he has traveled the world photographing wildlife, culture, and adventure sport with a uniquely artistic eye. Van den Berg’s photographs are known for breaking boundaries and depicting the natural world in a fresh and evocative way.
Van den Berg has done assignment photography for Getty Images, Discovery Communications, GEO, Terra, GQ, The Peaceparks Foundation, BHP Billiton, Gallo Images, and National Geographic Books. Assignment photography done for Discovery’s Animal Planet includes still images for the Meerkat Manor and Wild Recon series.
Images from his highly-acclaimed book Shades of Nature was chosen to be used for the prestigious Amani yearly calendar for 2017. Previous photographers represented include Yann-Arthus Bertrand, Sebastiao Salgado, and Robert Capa.
Apart from his photographic skills, he is experienced in the field of publishing, having photographed and published more than 30 photographic books. To ensure that the quality of images is maintained from the field to the printed page, Van den Berg is intimately involved with the reproduction and printing process – from the colour correction to the design and final production of his sought-after wildlife books. He is the founder and owner of the publishing company HPH Publishing.
The book Reflection, photographed and written by Heinrich van den Berg, was awarded a Gold Medal in the Coffee Table Book category of the international 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Van den Berg’s books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Korean, and Mandarin.
