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Date
October 5, 2011 – February 12, 2012 (except for December 25, 2012)
- Time 10am-6pm daily
- Location Washington, D.C.
- Price Free
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A tiny transparent shrimp hides in a sea anemone.
Photo by Brian SkerryAn award-winning photojournalist specializing in marine subjects, Brian Skerry has logged more than 10,000 hours underwater. Traveling up to eight months each year, he visits warm tropical reefs, cool waters blooming with life, and beneath the polar ice. In celebrating the beauty of the sea’s natural moments, Skerry crafts images with an artist’s deft touch. Creatures from the sea floor fill the lens in an abstraction of shape and color. A fish appears for a close-up in a blur of motion and subtle hues.
Beyond their artistic value, these photographs also tell an important story. In his coverage for National Geographic and other publications, Skerry pursues subjects that increase awareness of the plight of the world’s oceans. Treading softly beside nesting endangered leatherbacks and crisscrossing the seas covering the global fish crisis, he seeks to make photography a powerful instrument for change.
Featuring 50 photographs, this exhibition is based on a new National Geographic book, now available for sale, Ocean Soul (National Geographic Books, 2011; $50 hardcover).
Learn More About Brian
National Geographic Photographer Profile
Ocean Now: A Project to Study the Last Healthy, Undisturbed Places in the Ocean
Behind the Photograph: Leatherback Turtles
Behind the Photograph: Right Whales
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After a rare bleaching disaster, the reefs of the Phoenix Islands bounce back.
The waters off the coast vary from frigid to temperate to tropical. The marine life is uniformly extraordinary.
A rare, pristine reef turns out to be a landscape of fear, where predatory fishes reign and their prey is in hiding.
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