people don’t see. I have nightmares about
our oceans dying and nobody knowing that
it’s happening so quickly.You set up SeaLegacy with Paul Nicklen
to help protect the oceans. What role
does photography and film-making play?
When I was a scientist, I thought I could
compel people to feel the urgency through
science, just by showing them the data, the
graphs. But I realised very quickly that most
people don’t speak ‘science.’ But when you
show somebody a photo or a film, you can
appeal to a more ‘human’ series of emotions.
Photography in this day and age is
something we all do. We all carry a device
that takes pictures. So people speak
‘photography’. It’s a very good way to invite
people into the conversation in a way that’s
not threatening or intellectual or high-brow.
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