Collection: THE TASCHEN COLLECTION

Michael Muller has carved a career out of impressive encounters. Famed for his portraits of the world’s most elite actors, musicians, and sports stars, he has in the last decade built up one of the most spectacular portfolios of underwater shark photography.

Muller’s quest is to document sharks with an unprecedented proximity and precision, bringing the Hollywood portrait session to the ocean predator. In ocean depths around the world, he approaches the sharks with a patented seven-bulb, 1200-watt plexi-encased strobe lighting rig, developed with NASA engineering, and no cage.

This collection of Muller’s images, including the first-known photograph of a great white breaching at night, is a catalog of adrenalin and awe. It follows Muller’s ocean adventures from black tip and sand tiger sharks in South Africa to great hammerheads in the Bahamas.

The 50 images in this edition were first show at the Taschen gallery in Los Angeles in 2016. They are pulled from my first coffee table book Sharks, which is a cumulation of some of the most powerful images I’ve captured in the 20+ years I spent in and above the water facing my fears. I hope you enjoy them and I hope they offer an escape to whatever fears you’re facing. 

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