David Doubilet

David Doubilet (born November 28, 1946 in New York City ) is an American underwater photographer and author .

Life

Doubilet began underwater photography at the age of 12 and later spent the summer holidays at the sea with his underwater equipment, some of which he made himself. In 1970 he graduated from the College of Communication at Boston University . In the following years he worked as a diver and photographer for the Sandy Hook Marine Laboratories in New Jersey . While working as a diving instructor in the Caribbean and the Bahamas , he began to take photographs of the beauties of the sea and marine life. During this time he invented a camera with split lens cameras, which made it possible to take pictures with different focal lengths simultaneously above and below the water level.

The two space probes Voyager I and Voyager II each have a Voyager Golden Record on board, which shows an underwater photo of David Doubilet as picture No. 55.

To date, Doubilet has published more than 65 articles along with his photographs in National Geographic Magazine . He has also published a number of books and illustrated books. He lives in Clayton, New York and in Dekolder , South Africa.

In 2019 he received the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award in the Underwater category

Publications

• Light in the Sea . Thomasson Grant, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA 1989, ISBN 0-934738548 .
• Australia's Great Barrier Reef . National Geographic, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-934385-83-4 .
• The Last Caribbean Refuge .
• Water light time . Phaidon, London 2006, ISBN 0-714846058 .

Web links

• Website of the photographer
• Biography on the International League of Conservation Photographers website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-beste-tierfotos-von-2019-fotostrecke-171157.html