Emanuele Biggi | Saturday

Macro maestro shares his love of creepy-crawlies…

Emanuele Biggi, aka spiderman, nature and conservation photographer, TV presenter, frog and insect nerd. Emanuele will lead us into a eight-legged world, which is way more vast and rich than one could think. A often underrated world of tiny but skillful hunters, parents, divers and engineers.

Spiders live all over the world, except perhaps on the poles. They are woven into every aspect of our life on this planet. Many people often kill spiders as vermin and others keep them as pets. The common thread in Emanuelle Biggi’s story is that we must understand that spiders are a precious ally in our own existence.. 

The survival of the human species on Earth is subjected to the survival of the other forms of life, not the contrary. It’s all about biodiversity. Our world is a playground for life and death, where the fulcrum is the health of every ecosystem. By losing a “piece” of nature, we lose part of us, including a sense of beauty and culture.

Pie Aerts | Saturday

Exploring the disconnect

Pie Aerts is a Dutch documentary and wildlife photographer with a genuine interest in conflict stories between humans and wildlife. Through his lens he investigates the complicated relationship between animals, humans and nature. In March 2020, when the world came to a stop, Pie started Prints for Wildlife. A fundraising that raised $ 700,000 for conservation / conservation in just one month.

Pie feels the urge more than ever to be “the voice of our planet”. He really feels like the stories that he tells should give the places he goes to a voice. In the past 5 years, Pie has visited some extremely remote corners of our planet. There he has documented the diminishing connection we have with our natural environment and with each other.

Many of his photos show how the world is doing anno 2020. We live in a world that is rapidly individualising and as a result we collectively care about ourselves and our own struggle for survival more than ever. In fact, we are losing connection, with each other and with the planet we live on. And that’s a very dangerous thing because people stop caring. People will only fight for what they see and understand.

Pie hopes that his photos contribute to making a change and to encourage people to care again. That they make people fall in love again with their surroundings and with each other. Because if you love something, you’re willing to fight for it, whether it’s a landscape, an animal or your neighbors. And that’s what our planet needs.

Pie will discuss his findings during this lecture through beautiful images. He also talks about his vision of effective conservation.

Johan Lolos | Saturday

500.000 followers on Instagram in short time. How?

Instagram king and southern neighbor Johan Lolos has a dream job! As a professional photographer, he travels the world for a living. Who would not want that? Johan has a job that you wouldn’t immediately expect from someone who obtained his master’s in Public Relations. However, a few months after graduating in 2015 , he made a decision that changed his life forever…

Johan became a world traveler and influencer on Instagram. He’s a photographer known for his aesthetic nature photos with beautiful light. Someone who is especially attracted to great outdoors and the mountains. His book Peaks of Europe is a good result. During this lecture you will learn how Johan listened to his gouge and is now following his greatest dream: to travel the world as a professional photographer. He also tells how he gained an audience of nearly 500,000 followers on his incredible journey.

In this inspiring lecture he tells you everything about following your “gouge”. He really knows how to capture the light of the most magnificent destinations, as you can see in his aesthetic photographs. Nearly 500,000 people travel virtually with him via Instagram. 

He will share all his tips & tricks with you on Saturday March 13th. About boosting your Instagram account to become King or Queen Instagram. To top it all off, you can book an Instagram Marketing masterclass with him. You really don’t wanna miss this!