Who Are They?
They became our friends, our fellow educators, and our partners in protecting the beauty of life underwater.
Tomas Koeck is an New England Emmy nominated filmmaker, Canon USA-backed photographer, speaker, and expeditionist. In simpler terms, he’s a storyteller, an environmentalist, and, most importantly, ...
Jillian Morris is a marine biologist, shark conservationist, educator, and award-winning underwater photographer. She is the founder of Sharks4Kids, a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring the next gene...
James is a British photographer, videographer, and wildlife enthusiast based in Australia, currently writing and producing a series of Ocean themed documentaries due to launch in 2025.
Klaus Thymann is a Danish explorer, scientist, fellow at The Explorers Club, fellow at the Royal Geographical Society, multi award-winning photographer, filmmaker and creative director. He combines...
Bill Hawthorne in an Aquatic Ecologist for the Florida Springs Institute where he works on projects to protect freshwater habitats and wildlife. In his free time he dives Florida's many diverse eco...
Douglas Klug is a SCUBA instructor, underwater photographer, and diving writer based in Santa Barbara, California. Since taking his first underwater breaths on certification dives at the Monterey b...
David Gutteridge is a diving instructor, tech diver, freediver, and underwater photographer living in Stavanger, Norway. He primarily shoots wide-angle with wrecks and diver portraits. As an adapta...
Fritz Liechti is an award-winning Swiss underwater photographer, CMAS Photography Instructor III, and founder of the Swiss Masters Live Underwater Photography Competition.
Bruce Hall is a legally blind underwater photographer and disability advocate who harnesses the technology of digital photography and optical devices to capture what many often miss.
Josh Blank is an underwater photographer based on the Gold Coast of Australia. His imagery aims to inspire others to take an interest in the underwater world and hopefully help change the false nar...
Kristina Sherk began as an underwater model and eventually parlayed her topside portrait photography into a flourishing underwater photography business with a concentration on photo editing and edu...
Meaghan Ogilvie is a Canadian visual artist and freelance photographer. After graduating from a commercial photography program in Toronto, Meaghan redirected her path and pursued a career in the fi...
Mixing myth, underwater portraiture, and digital tools, Charlotte Bories creates imagery that most could only dream of.
Jason's background as a third-generation commercial fisherman brewed a passion for outdoor photography and a career shooting for boating, fishing, and outdoor industries.
Gary's professional life is all about aerospace flight, but his free time it's all about diving and underwater photography.
Marcel's professional background in digital marketing helps him to share the underwater world with the 7+ billion people who rarely- or never- see it.
A lifelong scuba instructor and naturalist, Michael has created his own niche in shooting in his home waters around the Chesapeake Bay.
Bryant has traveled the world over but still finds inspiration on a daily basis in the local diving around his home state of Florida.
Steven Kovacs is perhaps the most awarded underwater photographer in the world when it comes to fish behavior, and he's moving on to blackwater.
While his heart lies in the Mediterranean, Lorenzo uses his passion for photography to address the dramatic issues concerning all of our seas.
Legends say she is an airforce pilot who discovered lost WWII wrecks. We know for sure that she has a penchant for underwater photography... the rest who knows?
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The team at the Sandin & Smith Labs work tirelessly at the 100 Island Challenge: tracking change through extremely detailed 3D mosaics of entire coral reefs.
Skydiving and scuba diving from his home base in the Philippines, Claude is an accomplished underwater filmmaker dedicated to showing people the importance of our oceans.
Glenn combines 30 years of experience in marketing and publishing with a passion for underwater photography and travel.
With a degree in Marine Science, a captain's license, and certification as a dive instructor, Andrew has dedicated his life to being in and on the water.
Londoner Matt regularly circles the globe shooting ultra wide ambient light photography and videography. Matt is also a Panasonic LUMIX Ambassador currently shooting the GH5.
A pioneer of blackwater diving, Jeff spends a typical Friday night miles offshore looking for tiny sea monsters. Who's bringing the popcorn?
Kimber brings her love of adventure and the oceans to her work. She is one of the few people we know who plays the roles of photographer and model equally well.
In France and around the world, Alison uses her photography to blur the lines of reality and submerge expecting mothers in an underwater dream.
Brandon is an avid photographer, freediver, and US Coast Guard helicopter rescue swimmer living out his dream and capturing a moody side of the sea in Oahu, Hawaii.
Karen has mastered underwater portraiture and wants to help you do the same! In between photography sessions she travels the US speaking about her craft.
Our resident photo guru has a true passion for teaching and learning about photography. Steve isn't afraid to try any offbeat technique in search of "the shot."
Ken's photography speaks a love of water and a love of travel. Whether he's shooting a swim team or a school of sharks, his work captures life in action.
From South Africa to Norway, Jacques' freediving skills allow him to create underwater video that captures the energy of the ocean in a beautifully natural way.
Erena practices photography as healing therapy for cancer survivors. The transformative photo sessions help her subjects regain lost confidence and self esteem.
From fossils to bike trails to producing furniture out of driftwood. And somehow he also finds time to bring his boundless enthusiasm to underwater photography!
We're pretty sure David is the hardest working man in underwater photography. The only underwater photographer to be featured on the cover of LIFE magazine.
Rafal's underwater fashion photography has a magical, dreamlike quality, often perfectly punctuated by his favorite red-headed model (and wife Krysia Makiela).
With sirens singing in your backyard, who could resist the call of the sea? Shawn's work promotes environmental awareness and conservation in his native Roatan.
His book Underwater Dogs became an international sensation. We hear he's working on Underwater Cats but having more trouble getting his subjects into the water!
Philippe's underwater fashion photography oozes rawness and vitality. An adventurer at heart, his work connects with tales of beautiful seductresses of the sea.
