Laurent Ballesta is a French photographer, National Geographic Explorer, trained marine biologist and photographer for National Geographic magazine. At Andromède Océanologie, which is dedicated to the study, restoration and valorization of marine ecosystems, Ballesta is co-director and leads the Gombessa Expeditions — underwater explorations that aim to discover the marine world and to unite a large audience around a triple challenge: solving a scientific mystery, carrying out extreme dives, and collecting new and unique images. To close the week on “Water: Crisis, Beauty and Necessity — A Week in Partnership with National Geographic,” Ballesta will discuss and share photographs from these explorations — from the first images of the elusive, ancient deep-sea coelacanth taken by a diver at a depth of 120 meters; to ones of unprecedented dives beneath pack ice and the very first naturalistic images of the Antarctica’s deep-sea ecosystems.

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