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New Caledonia and Vanuatu Tourism Photography by Richard and Frederique Chesher

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New Caledonia and Vanuatu Tourism Photography. I love photography. By the time I was 10, I had my own darkroom and processed films and prints in black and white and then in color. In 1959 I began doing underwater photography in support of my activities as a professional diver and later as a graduate student in marine sciences. I assisted the professional underwater photographer Jerry Greenberg in south Florida and worked as an underwater photographer for Ribikoff Oceanics and Westinghouse. My first published images appeared in National Geographic Magazine in November 1966, and since then, my scientific and travel photographs have been published in so many books and magazines that I have long since lost track of them. My photo agents in London and New York send me lists of sales from time to time. In 2000, Frederique and I began production of travel and cruising guides to Vanuatu and New Caledonia and we specialized in hotel, resort, and tourism photogra...
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A New Year's Vision for 2026 - The Year of the Eye

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It is New Year's Eve 2026. I am sitting at the dinette aboard the yacht Moira, anchored in a wilderness bay where there are no houses, no people, no roads, no fences. Frederique is making digital drawings of mermaids, her fingers moving across her tablet with quiet intention. Café de Anatolia flows softly from our Bluetooth speaker—a voice carrying us across continents and time. Flash, our monstrous pussycat, sprawls across the table behind my rather ancient notebook, purring as if he holds the secrets of the universe. An excellent internet connection via smartphone means I am not really alone, though I am surrounded by solitude. This morning, Frederique and I walked the wilderness trail to Pipette Creek with a small, feral forest friend—now ten years old, a mother cat we rescued when she was tiny and wounded. She follows us as if we are her parents.  The day before, a huge low pressure system blasted New Zealand, sending cool winds northward into our anchorage. I feel them now—the...
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Location: New Caledonia
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Richard Chesher Ph.D. CV

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Community Environmental Research in the Pacific Islands   Richard Chesher, Ph.D  Photographer, Publisher Consultant on Sustainable Development for the Small Island States. Dr. Chesher is an independent Marine Scientist specializing in the impact of humanity on the natural systems of our ocean world. He has sailed the South Pacific aboard the Research Vessel Moira since 1976, seeking an understanding of how and why humans are systematically destroying their ocean and island environment. He has worked with island governments, regional organizations and the United Nations to identify possible ways of changing community behaviour patterns. In the progress of his adventures, Dr. Chesher has sought the fascinating social and evolutionary forces that guide the behaviour of individuals and communities. These concepts are now emerging as a whole new aspect of modern biological science. It is an idea that could never have emerged without the advances in bio-sensory te...
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