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The Living Sea - Fragile Beauty Exhibition in Ontario

May 10, 2023 | Toronto

The Living Sea – Fragile Beauty, is an exhibition featuring the work of Prince Hussain Aga Khan, and celebrates the beauty and magic of the ocean. The exhibition sheds light on the efforts to conserve marine life, and highlights the importance of protecting the biodiversity of marine organisms from human activities such as overfishing, sea transport and dumping toxic substances and waste into the sea.

All are warmly welcome to view the exhibition.

The exhibition can be viewed in Toronto May 24 - June 4, 2023 at The Ismaili Centre, Toronto as follows:

  • Friday, June 2: 4:00 - 9:30pm
  • Saturday, June 3: 12:00 - 9:30pm
  • Sunday, June 4: 2:30 - 9:30pm

Admission is free. Tickets can be booked online.

 

About the photographer

From a young age, Prince Hussain Aga Khan developed a keen interest in conservation, tropical fish, reptiles and amphibians, and began SCUBA diving at 14. He started travelling to the tropics frequently after secondary school and began taking photographs of fauna and flora on a trip to the Brazilian Amazon in 1996. 

Multiple expeditions, often organized jointly with scientists or professional photographers, have led him to constitute extraordinary visual archives, covering various geographical areas and types of habitats as well as a large number of marine and terrestrial species. 

His exhibitions, shown internationally, aim to inspire admiration for wildlife and the desire to protect it. Collections of Prince Hussain’s photographs have also been published in four books, Animal Voyage (2004), Diving into Wildlife (2015), Fragile Beauty and The Living Sea (2022).  Proceeds from the sale of his books are donated, via Focused on Nature, to shark, cetacean or sea turtle conservation.  

The Living Sea - Fragile Beauty is held in conjunction with Focused on Nature. FON’s mission is to assist in the conservation and protection of threatened and endangered species and to promote habitat conservation efforts.

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