Whale Nation: "Humpback Whales of the South Pacific"

"From space, the planet is blue. From space, the planet is the territory Not of humans, but of the whale." The name of our project is a homage to the Heathcote Williams and his seminal 1988 book-long poem "Whale Nation". The Whale Nation Project started documenting cetacean strandings. Although the genesis of the work was based on a conceptual idea, the final output was to have a strong educational-driven outlook. The production leg of the project officially started on Boxing Day 2011 when a huge 55 feet long Bull Sperm Whale stranded on a North Norfolk beach. Since then the idea has grown out of the constrains of stranded whales. On the Summer of 2014 we travel all the way to the South Pacific Archipelago of Vava'u in The Kingdom of Tonga or Friendly Islands as James Cook called them after visiting them extensively in his second voyage of discovery around the South Pacific. We were documenting the migration of the Humpback whales form the cold food-rich waters of the Antarctic Ocean to the warm shallow waters of Tonga. The project was extremely demanding both from a physical point of view for someone who suffers terrible sea sickness as well as economically. We spent 2 weeks in Tonga, out of which we were able to go in the water with the whales 5 times, once in the small island of Eua and 4 times around the Vava'u archipelago.

Editorial, Fine Art, Scientific and Stock Cinematography & photography. Specialised in Aerial, Motion and Underwater.