Frans Lanting (born 13 July 1951) is a Dutch National Geographic photographer, author and speaker.

Lanting's wife Christine Eckstrom is a writer, editor, producer, and works on joint books of nature photography.

A 2005 exhibit in the Field Museum of Natural History, entitled Jungles, focused on the plants and animals of the rainforest.

A traveling exhibition, Frans Lanting: LIFE began in fall 2006 at the Dutch natural history museum in Leiden, Netherlands.

[4] On 25 August 2012, a special concert version of LIFE was held in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam celebrating 50 years of the World Wide Fund for Nature.