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AIM: The objective of this association is to encourage the creation of artistic works and the organization of sound and image productions relating to the undersea world and more particularly to cetaceans. We also aim to inform, educate, or lobby in order to increase knowledge, appreciation of undersea wildlife and to encourage protection efforts.
Founders :
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Jean-Christophe Slucki
President of the association Whales Whisperers
Jean-Christophe is the founder and manager of an IT company.
He has sailed and dived most of the world's oceans.
When creating the non-profit organization "Whale Whisperers" with his friends, he had a very clear objective:
"I consider no longer possible to remain passive while witnessing the dramatic deterioration of the ocean environment and marine life worldwide.
What can we do to remedy what is now seen as an inevitable disaster?
Music and beauty have always been deeply rooted in man's heart, as the engines of emotion. Why not establish a relationship, and create art, by combining the magic of music and the beauty of these magnificent animals: whales, dolphins and orcas?
This is our contribution in championing the cause of our wonderful, yet fragile and threatened ocean world." |
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Henri Eskenazi
He has been practicing underwater photography for many years and shares his passion with us through a few of the beautiful shots he has taken in the course of his travels. He teaches underwater photography at the Fédération Française de Plongée (French Diving Federation), and his great talent brings us knowledge and makes us dream, both of which are indispensable to our daily lives.
www.henrieskenazi.com |
Honorary members :
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Patrick Bergeaud
Vétérinaire, chargé de cours à l'Ecole vétérinaire de Lyon est passionné par la mer et la musique classique. Cet ardent défenseur de la protection de la nature nous apporte ses compétences pour faire le lien entre le monde animal et le monde de la musique. |
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Fred Chotard
A diving instructor and underwater photographer, Fred has been a specialist in interacting with cetaceans since 1993. His main field of research is focused on the relationship between man and dolphins, and more particularly on the role of apnea in improving knowledge about cetacean behavior and the role of cetaceans on knowledge of apnea. His research has led him to meet numerous species of cetaceans: Dolphins from Florida (Tursiops), the Bahamas (Stenella), Tenerife (Globi), Zanzibar (humpback dolphins), British Columbia (killer whales), Egypt , Brazil (spinner dolphins) and from Oman (spinner dolphins and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin). He even traveled to the North Pole to observe Beluga whales! Today, he organizes trips on the theme of meeting
www.sea-dolphin.fr |
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Jacqueline Guillermain
Artiste Franco-suisse, elle dirige l'atelier de Verre et de Terre de l'Ecole
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille et enseigne à l''Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'île de la Réunion.
Elle a réalisé de nombreuses expositions personnelles internationales.
Inspirée par le thème de l'eau et de la mer, elle crée et réalise des objets en Verre et en Terre. |
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René Heuzey
Born in Lyon in 1959, René Heuzey had the privilege of growing up in Marseilles and of developing his passion for the ocean depths from a very young age.
After receiving training with the marins-pompiers (The French Navy's fire men) and obtaining a degree in diving type II, he created his own production agency specialized in underwater photography, LABEL BLEU PRODUCTION.
Having participated in over 1500 film productions on all the world's oceans working at depths exceeding 100 meters with a mix of special effects and an image bank of over 1500 hours, he has become the true “underwater eye” of many film producers in addition to pursuing his own productions. His activities also include advertising, reporting, fiction and live broadcasting.
www.labelbleuproduction.com |
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Jacques Mandelbrojt
Peintre de renommée internationale, conférencier, écrivain, chercheur, Jacques Mandelbrojt est Agrégé de Mathématiques et Docteur ès sciences Physiques. Il a été professeur à l'Université de Provence et a créé le Département d'Arts Plastiques de l'UER de Luminy, Université Méditerranée.
Il partage son temps entre le comité de rédaction de la revue internationale "LEONARDO", le MIM (Laboratoire Musique Informatique de Marseille), ses peintures, ses écrits, ses recherches… et nous apporte son expérience à la croisée de la science et de l'art.
www.mandelbrojt.com
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Jean-Marc Montera
Extremely well-known on the European stage for improvised music and more largely experimental music ( musique de traverse ), he has extended the scope of his instrument through the use of new technologies.
He has played with (among others) André Jaume, Barre Philips, Fred Frith, Yves Robert, Chris Cutler, Paul Lovens, Gunter Muller, and has collaborated with other artists (producers, choreographers, plasticians, poets, etc.).
As a committed artist, he is one of the founders of GRIM (Groupe de Recherches et d'Improvisations Musicales – research and musical improvisation group) in Marseille that he now manages.
www.grim-marseille.com |
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Amos Nachoum
Professional Marine and Wildlife Photographer Amos Nachoum has led National Geographic expedition teams with Dr. Eugenie Clark, Dr. Sylvia Earle, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and has co-produced documentaries with Stan Waterman. He was the team leader for National Geographic's Red Sea, Great White Shark, and November '96 Killer Whale photo expeditions. Mr. Nachoum's photos and essays have appeared in more than 500 publications in North America, Europe, and Japan, including National Geographic magazine, Ocean Realm, Island, Outside, Rodale's Scuba Diving, Time, Life, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Le Figaro, Terra Sauvage, Airone, and Mondo Somerso.
www.biganimals.com |
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Jim Nollman
Jim Nollman is a sound artist, music producer, and fine artist whose work focuses on natural themes. He is the founder and director of Interspecies.com, which actively sponsors artists and musicians to explore communication with wild animals. Interspecies’ programs include a 30 year study of live music, transmitted underwater, to interact in real time with the orcas, humpbacks, and dolphins in the ocean off Vancouver Island.
Nollman’s work has been sponsored by National Geographic, The Smithsonian Institute, Japan EXPO, the Rudolph Steiner Foundation, The Russian Academy of Sciences, The European Union, and the US Navy. He is the author of several books, including The Man Who Talks to Whales, and The Beluga Café. His musical output includes many theater and dance productions, plus several CDs by himself and other, including songs now found on itunes. His best known music is a much celebrated CD, entitled Orcas Greatest Hits, which showcases live, unedited music created with orcas, and recorded underwater on the ocean off western Canada.
www.interspecies.com
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Jacques Salomé
Jacques Salomé has five children and holds a degree in social psychiatry from the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. After being a professor at the University of Lille III for fifteen years, he began working in the field of human relationships. His experiments allowed him to accumulate a vast body of knowledge on theory and practice making him an expert on intimate communication and everyday relationships. Jacques Salomé has written several works about communication that have been translated into 17 languages (' Inventer la tendresse', 'Toi, mon infinitude', 'Papa, maman, écoutez-moi vraiment', 'Le courage d'être soi', 'Communiquer pour vivre' ...)
He founded a center for study of human relationships called Le Regard fertile , where he has trained some 40,000 social workers, doctors, psychologists and consultants. Prolific, he completed a work of psychological interpretation in 2007 entitled Contes d'errances, contes d'espérance .
www.j-salome.com |
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Guy Tempier
Born in Marseilles in 1960, Guy Tempier built his workshop, with a permanent exhibition room, in la Pointe Rouge. His first exhibition in 1981 was naturally dedicated to one of his most cherished themes: surfing.
Following several years of drawing and practicing various painting techniques, he discovered the airbrush in 1978. This small pistol, which uses air to project paint, requires a special technique using mats and stencils. This is therefore the ideal tool for him to satisfy his deep sense of detail and his will to produce and ultra-realistic effect.
Fascinated with the US, he varies his subject matter from the surfing world to other subjects like Rods, Harley, Chevrolet or Mustang P51, sometimes depicted with men, women or children, in a "pin-up" spirit.
Guy Tempier has been sailing since age 7, and always returns to his favorite subject: the sea and marine environment. Lighthouses, ropes, peaks, sailboats, white seagulls and colorful fish. .
www.guytempier.com |
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The Whalesong Project (Dan and Markus)
The Whalesong Project is dedicated to inspiring stewardship of the ocean and environment by providing meaningful connections to the world's undersea community.
www.whalesong.net |
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