OCEAN SOUL

Ocean Soul is a love story. It is a story of reality. It is a story of hope. The stories start when a boy who loves photography listens to a talk by National Geographic explorers Sylvia Earle and Bob Ballard. He says, This will be my life's work--to tell the story of the ocean. The boy, named Brian Skerry, does just that through more than 20 articles for National Geographic magazine. Twenty years later, his book, Ocean Soul, will be the ultimately stunning photographic portrait of the ocean as a place of mystery, as a place in trouble, and as a place of hope that will rebound with amazing ease as boundaries are set and observed. This lavish exhibition of imagery with compelling stories by world famous National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry brings an intimate and unforgettable portrait of all ocean environments and of four key creatures who are poster children for the health of the world's oceans (the shark, the right whale, the leatherback turtle, and the harp seal)--and ultimately our own health. Skerry, a lifelong diver and advocate of the oceans, is a colleague of Enric Sala, leader of National Geographic's high-profile oceans project, and of world renowned Ambassador of the Oceans and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle. With these two explorers he has been documenting the seas as only an insider can. He has published 20 articles in National Geographic magazine and averages a record two per year. Brian is above all a storyteller. In his lyrical pictures as well as words, he backs into the science of our failing environment by compelling us to love it.