A Florida red-bellied turtle at home in the massive stream of freshwater in Florida’s underground, which reaches the surface through numerous sources.
The special exhibition brings together the beauty of Lake Baikal, the Sense river, the Iguazú Falls, the Ross Ice Shelf and many more places in far-flung corners of the world. All of the photographs share a common theme - water. To explore this wide-ranging topic, Michel Roggo launched his "Freshwater Project" and traveled around the world for seven years to take pictures of streams, rivers and lakes in about 40 different places. His aim was to document all major types of freshwater on Earth, above as well as below the water surface. This required the 69-year old photographer to put on his diving gear and get in the water. "We know what coral reefs look like," he says, "but what about the waters in our own backyard? I'm always on the lookout for interesting and dramatically-lit scenes - beneath the ice of a frozen mountain stream or in the algae in a pond. These habitats are incredibly beautiful, but not many people ever get to see them." Challenging conditions The Natural History Museum in Freiburg (Switzerland) staged an exhibition with Roggo's pictures, which is now being presented in the Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich.
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