Photographer - David Doubilet
David Doubilet is a renowned underwater photographer who was born in New York on 28th November 1946. He began snorkeling when he was 8 at New Jersey coast and began shooting underwater at 12 using a Brownie Hawkeye. David Doubilet graduated from Boston University in 1970. He shot his first story named garden eels in the Red Sea for National Geographic channel in 1970.
He worked as a contract photographer for magazines since 1976 and shot various articles for the publication.
David Doubilet has photographed in the depths of oceans in New Zealand, Tasmania, Southwest Pacific, Canada, Scotland and Japan and explored the world's water. David challenged himself to redefine underwater photographic boundaries everytime he entered into water. His cold water work took him to Canada's St. Lawrence River and Botswana's Okavango Delta which are well known freshwater ecosystems. He has photographed sponges, stingrays and sleeping sharks in Caribbean and shipwrecks in the South Pacific, Pearl harbor and Atlantic.
David Doubilet has authored many books including Water Light Time, Fish Face, The Kingdom of Coral: Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and Light in the Sea. Water Light and Time which is a award-winning book, showcases over twenty-five years of work of David Doubilet under the seas and oceans across the globe. Doubilet's underwater pictures show the beautiful undersea world and the extraordinary skills of a photographer.
Doubilet's creativity was evident when he invented the split lens camera that allowed him to take pictures above and below water simultaneously. It worked by having a separate focus point on the bottom and top half of the scene. The pictures taken were recorded onto the same negative.
David Doubilet is well known for his reports on oceans and seas and received many awards for his amazing works, such as Lennart Nilsson Award for scientific photography in 2001 and The Explorers Club's Lowell Thomas Award.
David Doubilet is honored for his underwater imagery which is considered to be among the best by peers, colleagues, editors and the world. David Doubilet documented an article about changing underwater worlds which was his first assignment with the National Geographic and photographed over 60 stories for National Geographic Magazine. In addition, David's work continuously appeared in countless publications worldwide and he is considered as the world's leading and underwater photographer.
Image Photographer - David Doubilet Credit Website: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6674343.html?industryid=47052
