"One man's tranformational journey to find the Amazon's strangest creature."13 March 2016Factual67 mins
Struggling with a mid-life crisis, Robert Oelman leaves his psychology career in the early 1990s to photograph rare and exotic insects. After moving from the United States to Colombia, he forms a special bond with his subjects in the Amazon rainforest. This connection enables him to make striking photographic images of new and undocumented species. After more than 20 years of traveling, searching, and photographing, his quest culminates with a New York City gallery show where he finally shares his images with the public.
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity.
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Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a contemporary art form.
Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vitality and wonder of the rapidly disappearing rain forest.
Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.
A beautiful collection of pictures ties Frank Cancian, an elderly photographer and retired professor of anthropology, American with origin from Veneto, to the people of Lacedonia, a small town in southern Italy.
Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism.
Don Emilio is a humble, 63-year-old man who lives in the Amazon rainforest, seven miles from the city of Iquitos, Peru.
Alternative movies trailers for Learning To See
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Learning To See - Official Trailer
LEARNING TO SEE tells the story of my father insect photographer Robert Oelman. Struggling with a mid-life crisis Robert leaves his psychology career in the ...
Learning to See - The World of Insects trailer - WFFR 2017
Deze film vertelt het verhaal van fotograaf Robert Oelman die in de vroege jaren negentig naar Colombia verhuist en vele onontdekte insecten fotografeert.
Trailer of the short film "Learning to See" done by Digital Cinema MFA alumnus John Barnett
Trailer of the incredible short movie "Learning to See" written produced and directed by John Barnett a graduate of the Digital Cinema MFA film production ...
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