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Since colour images of the underwater world first started

appearing in magazines, we have become accustomed to

seeing stunning underwater subjects framed against the

ocean’s beautiful natural blue hues. But turn that background

pure black and you create stark portraits of marine life that

evoke completely different emotions in the viewer. In 2007,

Scuba Diver AUSTRALASIA put its first black background image

on the cover. The photo, taken by William Tan, made the cover

one of the most powerful in the magazine’s history, and the

issue became one of our most popular.

Now, in 2017, Scuba Diver OCEAN PLANET celebrates

a decade of black-background underwater photography

with the stunning imagery of a group of incredibly gifted

Chinese shooters from Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and

Taiwan. William Tan is joined by Aaron Wong, Alan Lo, Yorko

Summer, Jim Chen, Lynn Wu, Ace Wu, Fan Zhang, Yue Hong

Jun and Jonathan Lin, to bring readers a whole new world

of underwater black backgrounds. Black Is the New Blue is a

thrilling showcase of some of the best underwater photography

with black backgrounds. And with photography tips and tricks

throughout, the spirit of our original Scuba Diver AUSTRALASIA

magazine lives on. Launched as part of the ADEX China 2017

Book Festival, this book includes text in both English and

Chinese – a nod to the amazingly talented underwater shooters

across the Asian region.

Learn, Lead, Inspire

邱中山

John Thet

PUBLISHER’S NOTE