Icebergs, Disko Bay, near Ilulilissat, Greenland.
Photo: Chuck Davis

Davis has also worked on feature films such as Warner Brothers’ SPHERE and Walden Media’s Chasing Mavericks and documentary projects for the Discovery/Learning Channel, BBC, PBS, CBS, ABC, A&E, NBC/Universal and National Geographic Channel. He has also worked as the director of photography for Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Adventures PBS TV series, the Smithsonian’s Who We Are (a special dome-theater film for the National Museum for the American Indian, in Washington, D.C.) and the avant-garde production, Crystal Palace, filmed in Papua New Guinea for director, Mathias Poledna.

A widely published still photographer, Davis’ images have appeared nationally and internationally in magazines such as  LensWork, B+W, Blancpain’s Edition 50 Fathoms, Silvergrain Classics, Orion, LIFE, National Geographic, Audubon, Nature’s Best, National Wildlife, Outside, Scientific American, Terre Sauvage, BBC Wildlife, Italy’s FOCUS/Extra, Ocean Realm and numerous Cousteau publications. His work has also been represented in special exhibitions by the Ansel Adams Gallery, the Christopher Bell Collection Gallery, the Oceans Gallery in Los Angeles and in multi-photographer exhibits at the National Geographic Society/Explorer’s Hall in Washington, D.C., the Monterey Museum of Art, the National Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, VA, the Art Museum of South Texas, Nikon House/New York, The Center for Photographic Art, Brooks Institute and the San Francisco International Airport. Davis' work is included in numerous private and corporate collections; he is also the author/photographer of California Reefs/Chronicle Books.

Davis earned degrees in fisheries biology from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and in filmmaking from the Brooks Institute of Photography. In 2017, Davis was the recipient of the prestigious Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences’ NOGI Award for Arts. The main thrust in Davis’ personal work is helping to stimulate marine environmental awareness and conservation via the use of marine and underwater imagery.