Beneath the Waves

Simon Brown is an underwater photographer who specialises in documenting the hidden world beneath the surface, from marine life and submerged landscapes to underwater archaeology and maritime heritage.

For over 10 years the underwater world was both a photographic studio and a place of education and inspiration, from Arctic waters to the tropics in both salt water and fresh the environment was always presenting new challenges and opportunities.

His work won awards and featured in many publications before switching in 2014 to capture the world in 3D using specialist software to stitch together hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of images to capture and record the world at an incredible level of detail.

Simon will present some of his work following a loose theme of “Environments”, and share the visual wonder of what lies beneath the surface. Destinations include deepwater corals in Norway, the Baltic, New Zealand, sharks in the Bahamas, coral reefs of Egypt and South Africa, and from closer to home the English Channel and chalk streams.