Podcast Episode #3: Underwater Photography in Egypt
Join the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology’s (OCMA) podcast series and dive into the fascinating world of Maritime Archaeology. In this episode photographer Christoph Gerigk talks about his work in the sunken ancient cities off the coast of Egypt as part of Franck Goddio’s underwater archaeological excavation team.
Episode 3 - Telling stories underwater
By presenting some of his most iconic underwater pictures, Christoph vividly explains the challenges of his work, including bad visibility, and his responsibility of being everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
Christoph has been collaborating with Franck Goddio and the team of the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) for more than 25 years. He has been honored twice at the World Press Photo Contest.
Since the early 1990s Franck Goddio and the IEASM, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and the Hilti Foundation, have explored the submerged remains of the ancient sunken cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus off the coast of Egypt and the Portus Magnus of Alexandria and its sunken royal quarter.
The Oxford Institute for Maritime Archaeology
The OCMA was established in 2003 as a collaborative venture by the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) under the direction of Franck Goddio, and the Hilti Foundation, to create a center of expertise for Maritime Archaeology at the University. By supporting Franck Goddio and the IEASM since 1996, the Hilti Foundation has made a lasting contribution to innovation in underwater archaeological research.