Olivier Grunewald is a French photographer and author, with the main focus on nature, landscapes and wildlife. Olivier Grunewald was born in Paris in 1959. He started photographing birds at the age of 14. He studied commercial advertising photography at the Gobelins School of the Image, in Paris. After his studies he began working as a freelance photographer specializing in sports, mountaineering and rock climbing and continued climbing and photographing for the next 10 years with a medium format camera. Later in his career he switched to a large format camera and began to focus more on the wild nature, and a long term project on volcanoes. He travels all over the world and collaborates on projects with his wife, Bernadette Gilbertas, a geographer and journalist. He has also produced documentaries on Wild Earth for Science and Nature magazine. Since 1997, he specializes in volcanoes and travels the world to illustrate the diversity of the phenomena and the volcanic landscapes.
Awards
:fr:Fondation de la Vocation|Fondation de la Vocation, 1988
His work is published in major French and foreign press, including Le Figaro Magazine, GEO, Great Features, VOD, BBC Wildlife, Focus, Airone, National Geographic.
He has also co-authored 15 books:
Escalade Passion by Jean Kouchner and Olivier Grunewald
Australie terre du rêve, by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
L'Ouest américain, territoires sauvages by Michel Le Bris and Olivier Grunewald
Images de la Création
Lebendige Erde. by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
Islande, l'île rebelle, by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
Island. Insel aus Feuer und Eis. by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
Namibie, le désert de la vie, by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
Lumières de la Création
Nature, by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
L'ouest américain, territoire sauvage, by Olivier Grunewald and Michel Le Bris
Canyons : Au pays des Roches rouges, by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
Tsingy, forêt de Pierre – Madagascar, by Olivier Grunewald and David Wolozan
Volcans by Olivier Grunewald and Jacques-Marie Bardintzef
Islande, l'île inachevée by Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
