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 years and later spent the summer holidays with his partly self-made subsea equipment on the sea. 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. During his work as an instructor in the Caribbean and the Bahamas, he began the beauties of the sea and of life recorded photographically in the sea. During this time he invented a camera with split lentils (split lens camera ), the shots with different focal lengths above simultaneously and allowed below the water level.

The two space probes Voyager I and Voyager II Voyager Golden Record have on board, as the picture show # 55, an underwater photo by David Doubilet, respectively.

In the National Geographic Magazine have been published more than 60 articles by Doubilet together with his photographs. In addition, he published a number of books and picture books. He lives in Clayton (New York) and in Dekolder, South Africa.

Publications

• 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.