Acid Lake, Maly Semiachik by Olivier Grunewald

Photo Credit: Olivier Grunewald

Olivier Grunewald was born in Paris in 1959. He started photographing birds at the age of 14. After studying commercial advertising photography at the Gobelins school of images, in Paris, he began to work as freelance photographer specialized in sports, mountaineering and rock climbing. Later, he began to focus more on landscape and wildlife, spending five months in French Guyana working on leatherback turtles - work that was awarded a World Press Photo prize in the nature category in 1995.

Acid Lake, Maly Semiachik

Nature, second prize stories

20-09-2003

An acid lake within the crater of Maly Semiachik volcano. The Kamchatka peninsula presents a landscape of geysers, boiling lakes and active volcanoes.