The photographic book CORAIL is an immersion into the fragile world of coral and the communities that depend on it. It captures the solidarity, respect and connection with living things. A world that is both raw and real, and at the same time dreamlike and fabulous. This book is therefore somewhere between art and documentary.

Using powerful, often spectacular images, the French photographer appeals for the preservation of these emblematic ecosystems through an artistic report that retraces six years of field experience.

It is a hymn to the defence of biodiversity and a tribute to coral as an ecosystem essential to our survival.

Co-founded by Martin Colognoli in 2012, Coral Guardian is a French international solidarity association that works to conserve coral ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. The aim is to involve local communities in the restoration, protection and enhancement of coral ecosystems, which have been locally degraded by human pressures.

CORAIL is honoured to have a preface written by two prestigious personalities: Charlie Veron and Denis Allemand.

Born in Sydney in 1945, Charlie Veron is an Australian biologist specialising in the study of corals and their reefs.
He has named around 20% of coral reefs and discovered and delineated the “Coral Triangle”.
Chalie Veron is also an environmental campaigner.

Denis Allemand is a university professor of animal biology and Scientific Director of the Monaco Science Centre. His main area of research concerns the physiology of marine organisms, mainly corals, and their use as model organisms to understand major biological problems (biomineralisation, symbiosis, ageing, etc.).