Underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta had a mission: To photograph massive schools of marbled grouper that gather to spawn in the Fakarava Atoll, part of French Polynesia. The challenge? Grouper ...

Laurent Ballesta and his team built a semicircular rig of 32 synchronized cameras to capture this “bullet time” video sequence of sharks descending on a grouper at Fakarava Atoll. This visual ...

A French biologist and underwater photographer has been named as this year's Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year with his captivating image of fish spawning. Laurent Ballesta ...

In a channel in Fakarava, an atoll in French Polynesia, an extraordinary phenomenon occurs just once a year: the spawning of the camouflage grouper. These solitary fish, which can grow up to 90cm (3ft ...

Dive beneath the waves with Wildlife Photographer of the Year 57 Grand Title winner Laurent Ballesta. In the inky darkness of the ocean, Laurent documents a trio of camouflage groupers abandoning ...