Save Our Seas Foundation presents an outdoor photographic exhibit – WILD SEAS by National Geographic Photographer Thomas Peschak – that features his most iconic images from two decades of documenting the beauty and fragility of the world’s oceans.
The exhibit is up along the Sea Point promenade metres from the wild Atlantic Ocean just east of Cape Town.
Dr James Lea, the CEO of the Save Our Seas Foundation, said: “We work to connect people with the ocean, understand its fragility and how they can help. Cape Town is the perfect location to celebrate coexistence of people and marine life, and Wavescape the perfect conduit to channel this passion. WILD SEAS by Thomas Peschak presents a stunning range of iconic imagery that encapsulates the ephemeral beauty of our natural world, and highlights some of the stark realities our oceans face.”
The Save Our Seas Foundation has also teamed up with multi-faceted mixed-media artist Chris Auret to create an ocean-conscious mural along the Sea Point promenade. Auret has taken part in a number of group shows, created album artworks for well-known musicians and painted murals across the world.
“Art is an incredibly powerful tool. It can stir emotion and invoke ideas in ways no other medium can. We are delighted to have teamed up with Chris Auret to create this vibrant inspiring mural of our connection to sharks, and how their future really is in our hands.” continued Dr Lea.
WILD SEAS by National Geographic Photographer Thomas Peschak
WHERE: Sea Point promenade, Beach Road, Sea Point, Cape Town 8005 (opp SABC)
See also Cape Town Green Map
Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF)
Founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 2003, the Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) is a philanthropic organisation aimed at protecting and caring for the world’s oceans. Its support for research, conservation and education projects worldwide focuses primarily on endangered species of sharks, rays and skates. Three permanent SOSF research and education centres reinforce its action in South Africa, Seychelles and the USA.
Over the last 16 years, SOSF has supported some 300 projects in more than 60 countries, passionately upholding the founder’s plight to protect the population of sharks, rays and skates, whose presence is essential to the health and biological diversity of our seas.
INFO: Save Our Seas Foundation
Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland: Aurélie Grospiron, Director of Communication aurelie@saveourseas.com | Communication Unit in Kalk Bay, South Africa: Jade Schultz, Digital Content Manager jade@saveourseas.com
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