Award-winning and internationally-renowned underwater photographer and National Geographic contributor for 50 years. David Doubilet is an American photographer and photojournalist. He has received numerous photography awards, including the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

David Doubilet (born November 28, 1946) 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.

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Over the past 50 years, David Doubilet has photographed almost every ocean across the world for National Geographic, from the Indian Ocean to the waters around Antarctica and Nunavut. Doubilet's photographic style is atypical: He doesn't just shove his camera underwater and start shooting sea creatures.

What did you study in college? David Doubilet: I went to Boston University, and I was going to be a marine biologist, and I decided that this was not the direction I wanted to go in. I wanted to make images. And I studied film and broadcasting at Boston University.

NAT GEO National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine months after the establishment of the society, but is now a popular magazine.

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Rathika Ramasamy is an Indian wildlife photographer. She is based in Chennai and operates as a freelance photographer. She has received many accolades for her photographs and has been called the "first Indian woman to strike an international reputation as a wildlife photographer".

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Sumer Verma, India's first underwater photographer.