Photographer of the Week – Chiara Scrigner

An lovely Diaphorodoris papillata, crawling over a small algae leaf, Croatia

 

From the time she may stroll, DPG Photographer of the Week Chiara Scrigner had the ocean as her fixed companion. Growing up in northern Italy, she discovered to swim early on and by no means went to the water’s edge with no masks and fins. After finding out visible arts at college—usually a precursor to a pictures journey—she found scuba diving in 2016. Diving opened the door to a world that shortly turned her biggest ardour.

Chiara’s underwater pictures adventures started as many do—with a easy compact digicam. However, the slippery slope comes for us all and he or she moved on to a DSLR system as her ambitions grew. Fascinated particularly by nudibranchs and macro pictures, she makes use of her digicam to disclose particulars that the human eye can’t understand or which can be usually neglected. At the identical time, wide-angle pictures intrigues Chiara for its artistic potentialities, particularly by discovering distinctive views and placing compositions.

Her ardour for underwater image-making ultimately led her into competitors: Within the FIPSAS circuit, she turned Italian Champion within the Compact Category in 2021 on the Island of Elba, and once more in 2022 in Sicily, practically sweeping the class. In 2024, she joined Fabio Iardino as an assistant on the CMAS Underwater Photography World Championships, the place the crew earned a gold and a silver medal. She additionally competes in worldwide contests, attaining strong outcomes. Chiara dives all yr spherical within the Mediterranean, particularly in Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia, satisfied that the ocean holds infinite tales ready to be advised by photographs.

 

A small, brightly coloured blenny poses for the digicam, Italy

 

A photogenic freshwater crayfish beneath an attractive sunball, Croatia

 

An in-camera double publicity of a gnarly stonefish face, Croatia

 

A head-on have a look at Spurilla neapolitana, aka the curly nudibranch, Italy

 

Can a jellyfish be cute? Neoturris pileata makes a compelling case for it, Italy

 

Antiopella cristata, maybe essentially the most iconic nudibranch within the Mediterranean Sea, Italy

 

A standard octopus resting on the entrance to its den alongside a reef wall, Croatia

 

A shocking feather duster beneath the Mediterranean solar, Italy

 

A shocking little Eubranchus viriola crawling over a kelp frond, Italy

 

Close-up particulars of an attractive coral polyp, Italy

 

A multicolored sea fan rising on a deep reef wall, Italy

 

An lovely cuttlefish “pre-hatchling” contained in the egg, Italy

 

An undescribed Doto species laying its eggs on a hydroid, Italy

 

A beautifully-colored feather duster worm reveals off its feeding parapernalia, Croatia

 

To see extra of Chiara’s fantastic underwater work, please give her a observe on Instagram.