David Doubilet

David Doubilet is a photojournalist specializing in ocean environments. He is a contributing photographer and author for National Geographic magazine, producing over 70 feature stories ranging from equatorial coral reefs to life beneath the polar ice. Doubilet enters the sea as a journalist, artist and explorer to document both the beauty and the devastation in our oceans. Over the course of his career, he has spent over 26,000 hours in the sea creating a window into the hidden world beneath the surface. He has spent five decades exploring the far corners of our water world from interior Africa, the marine riches of the coral triangle, temperate seas of Japan, Tasmania and New Zealand, mysterious and misunderstood world of the sharks, the Sargasso Sea, secret life of freshwater eels, ghosts of war WWII shipwrecks and recently life in the polar ice. He has been referred to as the “Audubon of the Sea” and uses photography as a universal voice for a vanishing ocean. He is currently documenting the UNESCO Marine World Heritage Site coral reefs at risk from climate change. Doubilet is a featured presenter for Nat Geo Live, a columnist, contributing editor and author of twelve books. He has been named a Contributing Photographer-in-Residence at National Geographic, a member of the Royal Photographic Society, and has been a Rolex Testimonee since 1994.