Motyer, Nigel – Skerry, Brian

Brian Skerry is a photojournalist specializing in underwater subjects and stories. Since 1998 Brian has been a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine and has had four feature stories published within the last 18 months. His images have also been featured in magazines such as People, Sports Illustrated, US News and World Report, National Wildlife, Playboy, Smithsonian, Esquire, Audubon, Outdoor Life, Wildlife Conservation, Maxim, Men’s Journal and in countless publications worldwide. Brian is also the Photographic Correspondent for Sport Diver Magazine, which features his monthly column IMAGES. His latest book is Successful Underwater Photography with Howard Hall. His lecture today, Beneath Irish Isles is also the subject of his latest story in the March 2005 issue of National Geographic. Nigel Motyer began diving in 1985 and became involved with photography a couple of years after that. In fact his first camera was a Nikonos. Living in Dublin, most of his domestic diving is done around the west coast of Ireland where the effects of the gulf stream brings in an abundance of interesting marine life from the Atlantic. Although a banker by trade, he is a respected photographer having traveled extensively to numerous countries around the globe shooting a variety of subjects. Nigel’s work has been published in a number of books and European diving publications such as Diver, Subsea, Dive, Underwater Photographer, Sport Diver, Tauchen and Duiken. In 2003 and 2004 Nigel assisted Brian Skerry in Ireland with a story for National Geographic magazine.