pBrian Skerry is a photojournalist specializing in underwater and marine-related photography and stories. Since 1998 Skerry has been a contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine, covering a wide range of projects. Skerry’s capability to cultivate subjects of great distinction is unique within the field of underwater photography. His focus includes nearly everything in the sea, from whales, billfish, tuna, and sharks to fleets of deep-water shipwrecks worldwide. While on assignment, he has lived on the bottom of the sea, spent months aboard fishing boats, and traveled in everything from snowmobiles to canoes to helicopters to get the underwater picture. He consume months at a time in the field, and in the course of any given year usually finds himself in environments of extreme contrast from tropical coral reefs to diving beneath Arctic ice. Among his feature stories for National Geographic are “Deep Science,” “Beneath Irish Isles,” “An Eden For Sharks,” “Squid: Beautiful and Beastly,” and two cover stories, “Harp Seals: The Hunt For Balance” and “Still Waters: The Universal Fish Crisis.”
