Michel Braunstein

My passion for the sea was born prior to my 10th birthday as I was watching Jacques Cousteau’s movies. Just about 10 years later, I started diving and taking underwater pictures with a rented Sea and Sea camera.

I have never stopped taking underwater pictures since then.​For one of my birthdays, I got a Nikonos V underwater camera. A heck of a birthday present! This was probably the gift I’ve appreciated the most in my whole life.​Today and since the beginning of the digital revolution, I'm shooting with housed DSLR camera.​As electronics end studies project/thesis, I have developed in 1990-91 a diving computer with optical connection to a PC.

That happened before the first diving computer model including a PC connection, was launched on the market (by Suunto).​After hundreds of dives in the dark and cold lakes of my Belgian homeland, I decided to move to Israel to be closer to my beloved Red Sea.​Since then, I had the chance to dive seas. oceans, rivers, lakes... all over the globe.​I love to shoot wildlife underwater, but I love to shoot human models as well.​Over the water, I love to shoot my travels and also music concerts, jazz, street photography...​