Brian Skerry

Peter Rowlands · Issue 140, Sep/Oct 2024 · pp. 46–51

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Brian, thank you for taking the time to answer our questions which I am sure will of great interest to our readers. You are credited as the Creator and Producer of Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine which premiered on PBS on July 24th; written and directed by filmmakers Chun-Wei Yi and Stella Cha it presumably involved years rather than months from idea to completion? From the television series perspective, the length of time between my initial meetings with network executives until release was about five years. It began with a discussion about producing a documentary series focused on the Gulf of Maine whose underlying theme would be the effects of climate change but would include many related narratives as well. This is a story that I have been wanting to tell for decades. The Gulf of Maine is a 36,000 square mile body of water in the northeast region of North America, stretching from Cape …