Brian Skerry, underwater photographer

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Commercial Assignment

In addition to his editorial work, Brian Skerry is also available for commercial assignments. If your campaign involves anything underwater from a swimming pool to sharks in the sea, Brian will deliver the results you want.

Over his thirty-year career, Brian has worked with art directors and coordinators to produce specific looks to images and campaigns. We use a wide variety of lighting equipment and techniques from surface and underwater HMI lighting (movie lights), banks of underwater strobes, slaves, tungsten lights and more to create the perfect image.

We also have underwater communication equipment, so the art director doesn’t ever have to get wet! Surface communications equipment allows directors to talk to Brian underwater and make adjustments until the shot is in the can. The combination of underwater communication gear and digital cameras and feeds to surface monitors make underwater shoots easy for the surface team to direct.

Swimming pools can be turned into studios where fashion models or athletes are photographed in stunning detail. Or if the campaign requires ponds, lakes, coral reefs or the deep sea, we’ve got you covered.

For commercial assignments, Brian is represented by National Geographic Assignments. For more information please contact Alice Keating at akeating@ngs.org and visit www.nationalgeographicassignment.com

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Brian speaking at the Boston Sea Rovers clinic, 2003.

Upcoming Events

For nearly two decades Brian has presented programs to tens of thousands of people in numerous locations worldwide. His adventurous programs combine stunning imagery with science, environmental issues, unique historical perspectives and an entertaining sense of humor. Using a fresh speaking style, Brian will take the audience around the world and deep beneath the sea. He will guide you inside and around historic shipwrecks and bring you eye to eye with mythical sea monsters.

Programs can be tailored to specific audiences ranging from corporate executives to first grade children. For corporate audiences, themes such as risk management, perseverance and teamwork can be highlighted through Brian’s experiences in planning and executing complex expeditions.

Brian’s lectures also offer a rare behind-the-scenes look at how his photographs are made. While on assignment Brian has been lost at sea, nipped by a shark, chased by a sperm whale, "stabbed" by a German U-Boat and once surfaced in a blizzard from a dive in 28-degree water to witness his dive boat sinking. These personal anecdotes of “surviving the assignment” are often more compelling than the story itself!

Brian is also available for book signings either in conjunction with speaking engagements or separately. Signings can be accompanied by an arrangement of Brian's Fine Art Prints on lighted easels, grouped behind the signing table, creating the perfect backdrop.

Periodically Brian offers underwater photography workshops in locations throughout the Unites States and around the world. The dates and locations of workshops will be posted on this page.

To schedule a presentation or workshop with Brian Skerry, or for more information, please contact us.
Lectures

February 29, 2008 – NANPA (North American Nature Photographers of America) Annual Summit – Keynote Speaker, Outreach Event – Destin, Florida

April 23, 2008 – Tri-Beta National Biological Honor Society,
Worcester State College, Annual Induction Ceremony –
Worcester, Massachusetts

July 24, 2008 – Massachusetts Audubon Society, Visual Arts Center
Canton, Massachusetts

October 31, 2008 – WildPhotos 08, Royal Geographical Society
London, England

November 6, 2008 National Geographic Society,
Masters of Photography Series, Grosvenor Auditorium -
Washington, DC

February 13-15, 2009 – Whale Quest Conference
Kapalua Resort, Maui, Hawaii
Exhibits

Ocean Wild – Audubon Visual Arts Center,
May 18 – September 21, 2008
Canton, Massachusetts