The National Geographic photography duo of David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes, who create visual voices for the world’s oceans, will deliver Fredonia’s Earth Month Keynote Address on Monday, April 3, at 10 a.m. in Rosch Recital Hall.
Their talk, sponsored by the Division of Finance and Administration, is free and open to the public.
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| David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes (photo by Kelly Stremmel) |
Assignments for National Geographic have taken Mr. Doubilet, a celebrated underwater photographer, and Ms. Hayes, a photojournalist and aquatic biologist, around the globe, from Africa’s Okavango Delta to tropical and temperate seas of the polls. Recent assignments have sent them to remote corners of the Great Barrier Reef, under gas and oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, swimming within congregations of 500-pound goliath grouper and submerged in the ice with a harp seal mother and her pups.
In their slide show, the husband-and-wife team present stunning photography, share encounters with sea turtles and discuss impacts that humans are having on the world around them and the way the world has impacted them as photographers. A question/answer session follows the presentation.
In a career spanning five decades, Doubilet traveled to the far corners of the world, from interior Africa to remote tropical coral reefs, rich temperate seas and, more recently, has undertaken projects in northern and southern ice. His underlying mission is to connect people to the incredible beauty and silent devastation happening within the invisible world below.
Hayes specializes in natural history and marine environments and is the author of numerous articles on marine environments. Her images have appeared in books, advertising campaigns and highly regarded national publications. She has graduate degrees in zoology and marine biology and a passion for the study and conservation of primitive species.
The couple operates a studio and stock photography company, Undersea Images Inc., located on the St. Lawrence River in Clayton.
