David Doubilet

Known for: underwater photography for National Geographic

David Doubilet has contributed more than 70 stories to National Geographic since beginning his underwater photography career in 1971, photographing coral reefs, shipwrecks, and marine life across all the world's oceans. He developed techniques for split-level photography — a single image capturing both the underwater world and the surface above simultaneously — that created a new visual vocabulary for the genre. He has received the Gold Medal from the Royal Photographic Society.