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David Doubilet

Underwater photographer and author

David Doubilęt (born November 28, 1946) is an underwater photographer^[1] known primarily for his work published in National Geographic magazine, where he is a contributing photographer and has been an author for 70 feature articles since 1971. He was born in New York City and started taking photos underwater at the young age of 12. He started with a Brownie Hawkeye in a rubber anesthesiologist's bag to keep the water out of the camera. He lived with his family in New York City and spent summers in Elberon New Jersey exploring the Atlantic .^[2] He later worked as a diver and photographer for the Sandy Hook Marine Laboratories in New Jersey and spent much of his youth in the Caribbean as a teenage dive instructor in the Bahamas where he found his motivation to capture the beauty of the sea and everything in it. His wife is the photographer Jennifer Hayes.

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Doubilet's passion for underwater photography is inspired by environmentalism: "The desire to make an image that makes people thi

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David Doubilet (1946-present) – Iconic Photographer

Image: A baby green sea turtle swims for the safety of the open sea, French Polynesia © David Doubilet

In a career spanning more than 40 years, David Doubilet has extensively documented the world’s underwater ecosystems and become the most celebrated living underwater photographer. He has published 12 books, written almost 70 stories for National Geographic magazine and won numerous awards.

His work combines photographic expertise with a detailed knowledge of marine biology, capturing the wonder and strangeness of the underwater world. As he explained when I interviewed him in 2009, it’s this otherworldly quality that appeals to him most.

‘The sea covers most of our planet but visually it’s a far different world,’ he said. ‘It’s an extraordinarily beautiful, mysterious, delicate environment, where rules – even the rules of how you photograph things – are all changed. The aesthetics aren’t, but the rules are. It keeps you looking and looking and it becomes addictiv

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Short Profile

Name: David Doubilet
DOB: 28 November 1946
Place of birth: New York, New York, United States
Occupation: Photographer

David Doubilet's new book, Two Worlds: Above and Below the Sea is out now via Phaidon.

Mr. Doubilet, as one of the world’s most prominent underwater photographers, what is it about the ocean that has fascinated you for so many years?

I think it’s the idea that a river runs through everybody's lives, but gathers together and becomes one stream… Water has hypnotized me from a very early time. When I was a child, I had asthma. Some days I really couldn't breathe. I really struggled with it, but when I was underwater, I was weightless, my lungs could breathe freely. That made an enormous impact on how I saw things. And once you have that kind of feeling, almost an addiction to water, it doesn't really ever go away. It was and remains a place where I feel very, very free.

How long have you been making underwater photographs?

Well, I have memories of dives that I've taken when I was 11 years old, and started taking photographs underwater around