# @uscdornsife on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5bYU3BSK-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13645519-uscdornsife-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/49fa1958ae.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-04-20T18:09:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** USC Dornsife (@USCDornsife) — https://gondola.cc/USCDornsife

## Caption

📸 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 Magazine, at the link in our bio.

Underwater photos: Tyler Schiffman
Schiffman portrait: Djordje Jugovic

#Sustainability #Conservation #Photography #USCDornsife #DornsifeTrojans #USC #USCAlumni #LiveGreenFightOn

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