A new collection of Fishlove images are now on display at the baudoin lebon gallery in Paris.
A photograph of French actress Melanie Laurent (who starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds) is among those on display.
The photographs, taken by Italian fashion photographer Alan Gelati, join those of British fashion photographer Rankin, which were so popular that in one week alone the Fishlove website attracted 1.6 million hits.
Melanie Laurent’s photograph is being shown for the first time alongside celebrities from the world of film, stage, sport and business, all of whom have had their portraits taken with fish.
“The striking photographs are acting as a wake-up call to the world: end overfishing, or our seas will be without fish within a generation,” says Nicholas Röhl, co-owner of Moshimo restaurant in Brighton, England, who founded the project with actress Greta Scacchi in 2009 in response to the crisis of collapsing fish stocks in our seas.
Fishlove is now working urgently to aid campaign groups such as OCEAN2012 to persuade the European governments to support the reforms of the Common Fisheries Policy voted by the European Parliament in December, which seek to end overfishing by 2015, with a view to recovering and maintaining European fish stocks above levels that can produce the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) by 2020.
