So Often,

we view pictures of colourful coral reefs,

 or of the deep blue sea, 

but Mexican photographer and anthropologist Anuar Patjane has a different take on this underwater world, 

 he takes stunning pictures in black and white, 

 “With the Underwater Realm series, I try to drive our attention towards the beauty of our oceans a a truth usually unnoticed: We are brutally overfishing in our oceans, and our attention should be concentrated on the way we fish, as well as what we eat from the ocean,” he explains in an artist statement about the series, 

  “We see and care when a forest is gone because it is visible to everybody, but we don’t see when we destroy life underwater.”

 Patjane not only captures life underwater, but landscapes from all over the globe that may often go unnoticed, 

You can see more of his series, including images shot in Antarctica and Iceland, on his website and Instagram, what stunning and different photographs they are.