The World We Explore - David doubilet zeitgeist americas 2012 - Clip

>>Alison Stewart: The next -- the next couple of pictures are difficult to look at. And -- and that's for a reason. You are making a beautiful image, but it's very important to you to make sure that you document the dark side of what's going on with the ocean and with what we're doing to the ocean, what we're doing to creatures in the ocean. >>David Doubilet: This is a dolphin slaughter in a place called Futo, a little town 60 miles south of Tokyo. The villagers have driven 3,000 dolphins into the harbor, put a net across them, and are slowly slaughtering them. The dolphins themselves are not eaten there or even in Tokyo. They go south to [indiscernible] Kobe. What they do is they pull the nets tighter, and as they pull the nets tighter, I will show you the pictures -- they cut the carotid artery and the dolphins begin to bleed to death. When I was making this picture, I was standing on this cement quay, looking out at the scene, I could feel the cries of the dolphins literally coming up from the soles of my boots up into my legs and up into my viscera. >>Alison Stewart: How were you allowed to be there? I can't imagine they were that pleased with you being there documenting what was going on. >>David Doubilet: We were working there in Futo Harbor for three months, and the villagers knew us very well. They trusted us. These pictures were tough. They were pre-cove pictures, there was a while before they would be published, and they still would be a tough one to publish right now. Right now they've basically stopped dolphin harvesting because they've harvested all of the dolphins. Times are changing. Attitudes are changing, but this is one of the things that humans do to the ocean. >>Alison Stewart: This might sound like an obvious question, but I'm assuming through work like this, you hope to have influence. Do you know of any examples where your work has influenced a situation? >>David Doubilet: Alison, I think that the most important thing is that pictures have power. I'm a photojournalist, Jennifer and I are photojournalists in the sea, and what we want to tell you is this other world. To effect that kind of power, we have to make pictures that are -- that are beautiful and compelling. What you would think about as conservation artistry might be something because we have -- what do we have? A millisecond to take the -- to capture people's vision.