Videographer
The LIFE symphony premiered at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California, in 2006, and is currently touring North America and Europe. Eckstrom and Lanting also worked together to produce ORIGINS, a new multimedia production based on LIFE. Specially commissioned by CERN, the European Council on Nuclear Research, ORIGINS was performed at the official ceremony to inaugurate the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.Eckstrom has teamed up with Lanting to produce a number of acclaimed natural history and photography books, including LIFE (Taschen), Jungles (Taschen), Penguin (Taschen), Eye to Eye (Taschen), Okavango: Africa's Last Eden (Chronicle Books), and Forgotten Edens (National
Geographic). After traveling by icebreaker to visit emperor penguin
colonies along the coast of east Antarctica, she wrote “Time on Ice,” a
story that appeared in a collection of essays entitled Celebration of the Seas.As a videographer, Eckstrom documents the fieldwork she produces with Lanting. She has filmed pieces for the National Geographic Channel and NGM.com on cloud goats in India, elephants of the Western Ghats,
Hawaii's volcanoes, wildlife in Zambia, albatrosses in the Southern
Ocean, and chimpanzees in West Africa. Her coverage of chimpanzees in
West Africa was also featured in the NOVA-National Geographic television
special "Ape Genius," which received a Peabody Award.Chris Eckstrom lives in Santa Cruz, California, with her husband and partner, Frans Lanting, in a coastal meadow they share with bobcats, coyotes, and elusive mountain lions.
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