David Doubilet (New York, 1946), one of the world's most renowned nature photographers and a pioneer of underwater photography, will be honored with an exhibition at Villa Bardini in Florence. For more than half a century, Doubilet has transformed ocean life into images that combine the precision of documentary photography with the visionary power of painting. The exhibition "Oceans" (October 21 to April 12, 2026), organized in partnership with National Geographic, features over 80 photographs depicting the secret depths and their relationship with the surface. The exhibition's layout contrasts warm and cold, bright and dark, close and far, and includes an entire room dedicated to the over/under technique. "I consider the sea surface to be the world's largest and most important border", Doubilet remarked. "It is not political; it separates worlds rather than governments. The surface, as thin as a molecule, serves as a portal to 70% of the Earth. I became interested in it decades ago and began creating 'half-and-half' photos that caught in a single frame the world known above and the hidden one below".