📸 Conservation photographer and documentary filmmaker Tyler Schiffman (environmental studies and health, '17) grew up in Southern California. He spent a lot of time in the ocean. 🌊 “I was just a little beach bum kid growing up, free diving, surfing and spear fishing as much as possible. It really made me think, ‘Wow, this world is amazing. I want to protect this.’” 🤿 As a student at USC Dornsife he was introduced to underwater photography through his courses in scientific research diving and conservation. 🐠 “This is the life that could disappear in half a second. You kick a coral with your fin and it dies. A little change in temperature, a little change in salinity or pH and these lives are gone,” he explains. 🌿 “With these photos you’re not going to go and tell some type of groundbreaking news about the macro life of the ocean — you show people that it exists.” 🔗 Read more about Tyler's work, which has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic and Nature Conservancy Maga...