My office is the ocean.
I photograph nature in all its forms,
but mainly I photograph nature under the sea.
At a very young age, I used to live on the northern coast of Africa.
I have always been a swimmer and in the ocean scuba diving
and underwater fishing.
One day I traded the speargun for a camera.
I started to bring back photographs and videos from the underwater world.
And it became a passion for me.
It's an amazing thing.
When I'm in the water, I don't want to leave that world.
I want to become a fish and go live with them.
To do underwater photography, first of all you need a good dose of technique.
It is an extremely difficult job because you have to master photography
sometimes record sound,
and then also, to master scuba diving you need to have perfect balance,
because you're working in weightlessness.
Patience is the first quality of an underwater photographer.
The second is luck.
You really need to have a lot of luck.
to have nature on your side every time.
One image in particular that I have a lasting memory of,
I was lucky enough to approach a humpback whale and its baby,
very, very, very close.
I was surprised to see that while I was moving around the whale,
her eye was following me.
Somehow she was as interested in me
as I was interested in her.
During this time, a relationship of trust was established
between the animals and the photographer.
This is something extraordinary,
to manage to have this relationship with a totally wild animal
that lives in a wide open space without borders.
Until two or three years ago,
I was very specialized.
Now, I'm also getting interested in other forms of wild life.
It's a natural extension of the work,
because life is everywhere.
It was extremely positive for me to meet Adobe.
I can focus on shooting, I can focus on what I like to do,
and I leave the commercial side in the hands of Adobe Stock.
The beauty of this planet
is the diversity of the life that inhabits it.
The human species is only one of many.
When you manage to create interactions with these animals,
you just feel privileged
to be able to share a moment with animals that are perfectly wild.
It is an extraordinary chance.
It is absolutely necessary
to take advantage of what nature offers you, of what these animals offer you,
to be able to experience and share these images,
these beautiful moments with the general public.
Adobe Stock is acquiring stories about the diversity
of the planet we live on
and even photos from space.
I think that each image is a record of a moment in life.
Imagine in 30,000 years,
the people of this time who discover Adobe Stock,
they will have a complete perspective of the planet, the environment,
the population, its habits.
These image banks are also archives of the time,
of the society, of all the current affairs. They are all absolutely represented.
It's hard to imagine that the world we live in,
that life in the oceans could disappear.
If one of the species disappears, a cascade of disappearances will follow.
We only have one planet.
We have to share it.
We are all important.