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Portraits of Life in the World's Most Remote Island Sanctuary
National Geographic
October 2005
264 pages
ISBN: 0792241886
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
For this project, Middleton and Liittschwager gained
unprecedented access to photograph on and around these
protected islands that are otherwise completely off-limits
to people. Home to nearly seventy percent of our nation's
coral reefs, known as the "rainforests of the sea," the
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is a remarkable ecosystem
that supports a vast array of interdependent native plants
and animals that have evolved in this habitat over millions
of years, many existing nowhere else on the planet. The result is Archipelago. With its more than 300 stunning
images, the book illustrates the spectacular diversity of
these ocean and island creatures, as well as profiles many
of the people dedicated to the preservation of this
habitat. The inaccessibility of these islands and the need
to protect them means that few people will ever be able to
visit them in person, though now, for the first time, the
area's inhabitants are available for all the world to see
through this important body of work. In conjunction with
the publication of Archipelago, exhibitions of these
photographs will be mounted in Honolulu and Washington, and
will then travel to venues around the country throughout
2006.
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