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- Cameraman and producer
Born in Indonesia, as son of Hugo Anne Victor Raoul Baron van Lawick and Isabella Sophia Baroness van Ittersum, Hugo developed an early love of animals and determined that film would be his medium.
He was since his youth facinated with photography and this resulted in his later years in becoming the best filmer of Natural Life.
In 1959 he was a stills and cinema cameraman for Dutch film companies on location in Kenya.
By 1962, he was covering East Africa for the National Geographic Society.
Hugo was sent to The Gombe Reservation in Tanzania to register some of the amazing discoveries that primate researcher Jane Goodall had made during her study of chimpanzees, beginning a long creative relationship that sustained his art and detailed research into the predators of the plain.
Over a period of twenty years Hugo filmed the lives of three generations of chimpanzees. It took him five years to edit the hundreds of hours of valuable material into the feat