Chasing Light (English, German and French Edition)

About the Author Swiss photographer Stefan Forster spent most of his childhood in the great outdoors. Now thirty, Forster spends six months of the year traveling the world and holds twelve workshops annually to guide clients to our planet's most beautiful places. At the tender age of seventeen, he went on a solo eighteen-day hike through the southern Highlands of Iceland, where he discovered his love of photography. Just a few years later, his passion became his profession, and he opened his own photography academy. He spends about two months of the year in Iceland, his second home.

With enormous enthusiasm but still prepared for anything, he often hikes through remote areas for weeks at a time on his search for the extraordinary. Captured in vivid color, the moments that photographer Stefan Forster uncovers in out-of-the-way places in nature take place on adventurous backcountry trips far from civilization, where he carries up to 80 pounds in camera gear and camping equipment. Stefan Forster published some of these aerial pictures in Above the World - Earth Through a Drone's Eye, released by teNeues in September 2016.. Forster was one of the first photographers to use state-of-the-art quadcopter drones to give his photos fresh, new perspectives. He has taken long solo kayak trips along Greenland's west coast, hoppe

Just a few years later, his passion became his profession, and he opened his own photography academy. He spends about two months of the year in Iceland, his second home. Swiss photographer Stefan Forster spent most of his childhood in the great outdoors. At the tender age of seventeen, he went on a solo eighteen-day hike through the southern Highlands of Iceland, where he discovered his l