HIGH AND LOW
It’s not every day you get to sit in on a call with an astronaut, but when there’s also an angle on photography (and when said astronaut has taken photos of the furthest reaches of space and the deepest parts of the ocean) the prospect becomes even more interesting.
Richard Garriott de Cayeux, at first glance, an unlikely candidate for an interview slot in DP. As a successful video game developer, entrepreneur, explorer and author of several books including his own rich memoir Explore/Create, Richard was the sixth private astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station. But it was onto the ISS that he snuck a Canon IXUS camera into his pocket.
During his more recent 2021 expedition to the deepest place in the ocean, The Mariana Trench, Richard took a series of photographs using the Canon EOS R to create records of the extraordinary journey. He also put together a sub-aquatic gallery of work produced by students of the Canon Young People Programme (YPP); powerful imagery on the subject of plastics in the ocean. These students – from some of the more remote schools in West Cumbria, UK – were taught photography skills by
