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Ocean's twelve

A unique 2008 calendar showcasing images from the world's most exciting underwater photographers has gone on sale to raise funds for Bite-Back.

Bite-Back 2008 calendar






For the first time ever, the work of award-winning photographers including David Doubilet, Doug Perrine, Chris Fallows, Jeff Rotman, David Fleetham, Alex Mustard, Michael Aw Brian Skerry and others can be viewed in a high quality calendar that combines stunning photography with thought-provoking commentary from the lens-men, themselves.
Bite-Back 2008 calendar
Images from the coastal waters of Hawai'i, Singapore, Mozambique, South Africa, the Maldives and Egypt, have all been donated to support Bite-Back's campaigns to combat over-fishing, coral degradation and marine pollution.

As David Doubilet points out: "Images have power - sometimes they are the single link that humans have with the sea."

The project has enormous significance to the young marine conservation group.  Its campaign director, Graham Buckingham, said: "Over-fishing is the single biggest threat to the marine environment.  It is fuelled by purely by over-consumption and we must shift that balance to stand any chance of ensuring the survival of big fish like sharks, swordfish and marlin.  These species are at the forefront of a marine holocaust."

Bite-Back 2008 calendar

It is a view that is echoed by many of the illustrious contributors. Previous winner of the BBC Underwater Photographer of the Year, Jeff Rotman, said: "When I return to photograph places visited years before, I see with great sorrow that they are slowly fading and even disappearing."

A major and ongoing hurdle is how to make that message urgent and relevant to divers and concerned consumers.

Its latest and most innovative answer was to bring together the aquatic equivalent of Annie Liebovitz, Mario Testino and David Lachapelle.  As Graham Buckingham points out: "Just as these photographers have chronicled fashion trends, our celebrated underwater photographers are barometers to the status of the liquid world.  David, Doug and others have been diving solidly for 40 years or more and have recorded their own unique take on the plight of the oceans in this calendar.  Combined, it's an urgent call for help."

Bite-Back 2008 calendar

Just 3000 copies of this calendar have been printed to raise funds for the innovative shark and marine conservation group.

Each calendar costs £10 (plus p&p).