Vincent Munier’s best pictures of wild Tibet, with texts by Sylvain Tesson (in French only). Finding a snow leopard is the holy Graal for so many naturalists and travelers. The quest to find this animal is bewitching: you have to scan your eyes on every rock, on every patch of snow, on the back of each and every peak to hope and see it. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll meet the other inhabitants of this majestic decor: tiny pikas, birds of prey, Tibetan foxes, rare wild yacks, herds of kiangs...
Vincent MUNIER
Sylvain TESSON
30 x 24 cm
240 pages
160 photos
ISBN : 9782953738988
65 €
Vincent Munier’s travel journal in wild Tibet, tracking the mythical snow leopard (in French only, with black and white pictures).
The mountain is shining in the light. Throughout the day, the rocky slopes are exposed to sunlight; shadows; moonlight and strong winds. The air is dry and freezing cold on the Tibetan plateau. Impressive screes are lying still, just as if they had always been there, since time immemorial. And suddenly, a tiny movement catches our eye and awakens all of our senses: a big cat is on the move... it climbs down the rocks, and then vanishes. The snow leopard has disappeared, but we can still feel its presence. In fact, it’s bringing the mineral landscape around us to life. This morning, the feline is going on a hunt...
Vincent MUNIER
Vincent MUNIER
17 x 24 cm
164 pages)
120 photos (black & white)
ISBN : 9782953738995
35 €
Vincent MUNIER & Laurent BALLESTA
Luc JACQUET
very short text in French only
35 x 25 cm
208 pages (2 x 104 pages)
two volumes inside a beautiful slipcase
90 pictures
ISBN : 9782916552811
coédition Kobalann & Paulsen
110 €
For the first time, photographers Vincent Munier and Laurent Ballesta have travelled together to discover the natural treasures of Adélie Land, in Antarctica.
Vincent Munier explored the ice field and the bird colonies, while Laurent Ballesta dove under the ice; one observed the emperor penguins and snow petrels in the open air, while the other dove with the Weddell seals and photographed the astonishing and unknown biodiversity of the Antarctic depths…
Both have brought unique pictures from this exceptional trip, where the whiteness of the ice contrasts with the submarine blue.
« Adélie, Land & Sea » is the result of artistic and technique challenges, as well as a very fine object: it gathers two volumes (one white, one blue) in a beautiful slipcase.
Text in French only (very short - two poems by director Luc Jacquet)
Vincent Munier showcases his best pictures from the Arctic. He brought them from different polar expeditions lead in winter during the past 6 years, generally alone and with full autonomy. In the cold, pulling heavy sleds, he walked and skied across hundreds of miles on the territories of the white wolves: the « ghosts of the tundra », as the Inuit have named them. From Scandinavia to the northenmost islands of Nunavut (Canada), we are invited to discover a breathtakingly beautiful, fascinating wild world: polar bears and foxes, caribous, muskoxen, arctic hares, snowy owls… and even a magical encounter, when a pack of nine wolves surrounded the photographer!
Munier’s unique pictures carry us away on a long and adventurous journey across the open spaces of the far North; their gentle, white atmosphere softens the real harshness of this gigantic desert, at the top of the world. And for the first time, the photographer shares with us his travel journal and personal impressions of the Arctic, one the most remote and fragile places on the planet.
Vincent MUNIER
Text in French only
30 x 24.5 cm
264 pages (photos) + 48 pages (travel journal)
The photo book & the travel journal are together in a paper slipcase
200+ pictures
ISBN : 978-2-9537389-7-1
65 €
Size of the print:
17,8 x 27 cm
(size of the sheet of paper: 21 x 29.7 cm)
500 €
Vincent MUNIER
24 x 29 cm
88 pages
61 pictures
ISBN : 978-2-9537389-6-4
20 €
« L’appel du loup » showcases more than 60 pictures to (re)discover the bestiary and main journeys of the photographer, through 12 amazing wild places: the Vosges in France, Kamchatka in Russia, Hokkaido Island in Japan, Dovrefjell in Norway, Yellowstone in Wyoming (USA), Iceland, South Georgia, Tibet, Svalbard, Quebec and, of course, Nunavut in Canada…
You can still download the free mobile app « L’appel du loup » in order to enjoy extra contents about the species and places (photos, videos and audio comments).
Available for smartphones and tablets with iOs and Android (in French only).
Dark shadows and pale moonlight, unreal atmospheres and surprising fuzziness bring to light the admired silhouette of the animal. Like in mysterious tales, the subtle and original pictures by French photographer Vincent Munier transport us into the heart of the deepest forest.
His photographs are accompanied by a CD of nature sounds, collected by Marc Namblard to offer the reader the thrill of a night approach and the power and energy of the rut season.
French writer and ecologist Yves Paccalet is the author of the beautiful prelude.
Vincent MUNIER
Marc NAMBLARD, Yves PACCALET
Marc NAMBLARD
33 x 22,5 cm
80 pages
53 pictures
74 minutes (12 tracks)
PEFC certified papers
printing and binding in France
ISBN : 978-2-9537389-5-7
50 €
Print dimensions: :
17,8 x 27 cm on a A4 sheet of paper
800 €
A photographic work carried out by Michel and Vincent Munier, together with soft poems by CharlElie Couture. Amazing pictures and subtle words take the reader to a journey into a secret, fragile and ignored nature. An unreal world which however stands on our doorstep. All these photographs were shot in Lorraine, on the ponds, the peat bogs, or in the old forests of Eastern France. Primitive accents... Let us share unique moments, in the private world of lynx, foxes, woodpeckers, owls... It took many years to Michel and Vincent MUNIER to gather this material with passion and dedication.
"Au fil des songes" was the first book published by Kobalann, reprinted four years after its publication (2010).
Michel & Vincent MUNIER
CharlElie COUTURE
24.5 x 27 cm
224 pages
160 pictures
ISBN : 978-2-9537389-0-2
42 €
Vincent MUNIER
Matthieu RICARD
21 x 35 cm / 35 x 21 cm
136 pages each
124 pictures
PEFC certified papers
Swiss binding
ISBN : 978-2-9537389-4-0
110 €
These two bilingual books (French and English) showcase Vincent Munier’s photographic work in two original formats: a vertical tome and a horizontal one.
Mysterious shadows and delicate portraits, silhouettes moving in the mist and hidden beasts punctuate these two reveries on paper. Two complementary books composing together a bright picture of the vast solitudes, sublimed by thoughts selected by Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, photographer and writer.
Solitudes I rises to the sky. Our look is guided along the tree trunks and through the branches. It tumbles down with a waterfall, falls like the snow and follows with bliss the subtle line of the seaside or the contours of rocks...
Solitudes II caresses the earth. The horizon becomes the architect of each image and invites us to get lost into the storm, to merge with the mountain crests or the whiteness of the ice field… to contemplate infinity.
Prints dimensions :
18,5 x 34 cm / 34 x 18,5 cm
500 €
Marine de Lacoste
marine.delacoste@kobalann.com
Vosges, France.