{"id":49251,"date":"2025-08-07T01:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49251\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T01:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:51:10","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-environmental-photographer-nick-brandts-sink-rise-underwater-images-in-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49251\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of environmental photographer Nick Brandt\u2019s SINK\/RISE underwater images in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Aug 7, 2025 \u2013 11.20am, first published at 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription -d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>They called it \u201cthe boneyard\u201d: an underwater expanse of snapped-off coral fragments a kilometre offshore of Savusavu on the Fijian island of Vanua Levu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looked like millions of pieces of broken bone,\u201d says English photographer Nick Brandt of the reef destroyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/life-and-luxury\/travel\/cast-away-your-cares-fiji-bounces-back-post-winston-20161121-gsu0we\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Cyclone Winston in 2016<\/a>. \u201cI hadn\u2019t grasped until then how cyclones can also destroy the ocean bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Aug 7, 2025 \u2013 11.20am, first published at 5.00am Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-49251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}