Anouk Masson Krantz

Anouk Masson Krantz is a French/Dutch fine-art photographer and author living in New York City, who has made work about cowboys, rodeo and ranching in the Western United States. She has had a solo exhibition at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma. In 2023, she received the Bronze Wrangler at the Western Heritage Awards.

Early life and education Krantz was born in L'Union, a suburb of Toulouse, France. Raised in France, she moved to the United States her last year of high school in the late 1990s. Living in New York City, she completed high school at the Lycée Français de New York, but then returned to France to study at the University of Paris XI and transferred after two years back to New York City where she earned a bachelor's degree. In New York she worked for lifestyle magazines and at Cartier's corporate office, and later studied at the International Center of Photography.

Work Wild Horses of Cumberland Island (2017) is about a band of feral horses living on Cumberland Island, off Georgia.

Publications Wild Horses of Cumberland Island. Mulgrave: Images, 2017. . West: The American Cowboy. Mulgrave: Images, 2019. .

Solo exhibitions West: The American Cowboy, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2020