UPY 2025

UPY  Underwater Photography Book of the Year - Winner
'AQUA, mysteries of the underwater world'
Pietro Formis

A book dedicated to water: the source of all life and mother of every creature on the planet.
This is a journey through light, shapes, colours, and the behaviour of aquatic creatures - from tropical seas, to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean – an examination of the uncertain future of the oceans and of our planet.
Light, source of energy for the ecosystem and the creator of spectacular effects.
Darkness and its mysterious creatures.
Colours and communication codes of a complex and wonderful world.
Shapes, forged by evolution, illustrated in an almost indescribable variety of functional solutions.
Anthropomorphic masks of seemingly monstrous but incredibly fascinating beings.
Life and death, closely linked: the investment of a species in its own future; from the parental care that some parents dedicate to their offspring, to the extreme sacrifice of the individual that gives up its life for the new generation.
Predation, universal law of the natural world - eat and be eaten.
Survival: surviving and adapting to the most greedy, cynical and determined predator of all – man. An animal among animals, predator among predators, that has forgotten the purpose of equilibrium with the environment in which it lives.
This publication is not only a collection of beautiful images but also an educational tool for raising awareness of the marine environment which, for many years now, has been suffering considerable damage due to humans activities.
Featuring 128 pages with 110 photos is written Italian and English and is distributed in bookstores and available online.