A sea without sharks is an unhealthy sea. Underwater photographer Gerardo del Villar knows this well and wants everyone else to understand it too. At the beginning of his adventures interacting with sharks, his goal was to portray their strength: their formidable bodies, jaws, and teeth. Today, the Mexican photographer prefers to tell their stories, to change the perception that they are ruthless killers and show instead the threats they face in order to highlight the state of the seas.
His relationship with these predators is one of love, he tells me several times, always with a smile. The animals he loves have been crossing the world’s oceans for 400
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