Getty Images/Marriott Bonvoy Traveler: Reef Resilience
As part of their ‘How to Travel Better’ series, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler wanted to develop an interactive multimedia article focusing on the positive impact of tourism on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Getty Images approached us on behalf of Marriott Bonvoy to organise and execute the shoot. We worked with local operators to organise a trip to a remote, rarely visited part of the Great Barrier Reef. We travelled to Cairns to interview local conservationists on camera.
We delivered a suite of underwater photographs, including landscapes of the beautiful Wheeler Reef and environmental portraits of conservationists in action. We provided stunning aerial footage of the Great Barrier Reef, interviews with talent and underwater and topside b-roll of the Reef and conservationists.
View the interactive article on the Marriott Bonvoy Traveler website.
The Work:
Production Services
Field production
Underwater cinematography
Topside cinematography
Aerial cinematography
Photography: a suite of documentary-style imagery of the trip
Video editing and colour grading
“Precisely because of this extraordinary natural beauty and the reef’s UNESCO World Heritage status, it has become a global emblem for the impact of climate change on biodiversity. The countless challenges the reef faces have been widely documented: three mass coral bleaching events in five years, cyclonic storms, increased coastal development, crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks, declining fish populations due to rising sea temperatures, and more. To date, as much as 50 percent of the reef’s coral cover has now been lost.”
