While you were perfecting that Double Windsor on your tie or applying the final touches of eyeliner this morning, there's a good chance that Brian Skerry was swimming among sharks. As one of the world's most renowned underwater photojournalists, the 53-year-old has clocked over 10,000 hours taking images of marine wildlife, often on assignment for National Geographic magazine.
Skerry's fascination with the sea began at a young age. 'I remember going to the beach as a child in New England [in America], where I lived, and looking at the waves and wondering about the animals that were down there,' he recalls. 'I very much wanted to explore and solve some of those mysteries for myself.' And he did.
He learnt how to scuba dive at 15, and picked up photography a year later. He naturally combined those great loves and, more than two decades after he first released a camera shutter, he finally achieved his dream to shoot for National Geographic.
