UPY 2025

UPY  Underwater Photography Book of the Year - Recommended reading
'Looking for Whales'
Wade & Robyn Hughes

A 15 year-long commitment to observe and record the behaviour of whales in the wild, the book combines monochrome fine-art and documentary photography, with informative and entertaining texts.
Curiosity prompted Wade and Robyn Hughes, the authors—to go, as Jacques Cousteau observed, “looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”
Inspired, informed, and guided by the work of leading whale researchers, they set out to contribute their observations, authorship, and photographic art to the evolving body of knowledge of these mystical beings. That they succeeded is underlined by pre-eminent sperm whale researcher Dr Hal Whitehead’s Foreword in which he comments on “remarkable photographs” and extraordinary insights” and credits the work for having shown him the “importance of sensing skin on skin” within sperm whale society ‘Looking for Whales’, published by Halstead Press and endorsed by Australian Geographic, is a book for every whale enthusiast.
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