Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by David Doubilet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a photographer David Doubilet.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
David Doubilet

David Doubilet is an underwater photographer known primarily for his work published in National Geographic Magazine where he is a contributing photographer and has been an author for 70 feature articles since 1971. He was born in New York City and started taking photos underwater at the young age of 12. He started with a Brownie Hawkeye in a rubber anesthesiologist's bag to keep the water out of the camera. He lived with his family in New York City and spent summers in Elberon New Jersey exploring the Atlantic. He later worked as a diver and photographer for the Sandy Hook Marine Laboratories in New Jersey and spent much of his youth in the Caribbean as a teenage dive instructor in the Bahamas where he found his motivation to capture the beauty of the sea and everything in it. His wife is the photographer Jennifer Hayes.

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo. — © David Doubilet
Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.
My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.
As the oceans go, so do we.
We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.
I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.
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