Great Ocean Forests is a global storytelling project exploring the world’s kelp forests through photography, film, writing, and immersive media. Over the past five years, we’ve conducted expeditions across six continents — working alongside local divers, scientists, artists, and ocean communities to build a living portrait of these underwater ecosystems.

Our work is shaped by time spent in the forests themselves — diving among their canopies, listening to the stories of those who know them best, and exploring the distinct character of each place. We’ve gathered a growing body of images, films, and stories that reveal not only the beauty and diversity of these ecosystems, but also how they are changing in a warming world.

Music plays a central role in how we tell these stories. From field recordings of kelp forests to collaborations with some of the world’s leading composers and musicians, sound helps bring audiences into closer relationship with these living, breathing places beneath the waves.

We are currently preparing a large-format photographic book, a series of short films, new musical works, and immersive media that will help bring these stories to wider audiences in the years ahead. Throughout, we remain committed to collaboration, curiosity, and care for the living world.