
Casteel has also appeared on Good Morning America, EXTRA, Jeopardy!, The Insider and Inside Edition.Ĭasteel founded a non-profit organization, One Picture Saves a Life, to improve the image of animal rescue and adoption initiatives through photography. His work has been published in National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, The Telegraph, Huffington Post and in numerous other websites and publications. Since then, Casteel has worked primarily as a pet photographer, accepting commissions and commercial assignments, and exhibiting his artwork in galleries around the world. He subsequently published a book of his photographs, Underwater Dogs, which became a New York Times Bestseller, in fact its best selling photography book of 2012. Traffic on his own website increased from 200 per day to 100,000 per day. His photographs went viral and were viewed by millions. On February 9, 2012, Casteel's photos of underwater dogs were posted to Reddit and Google+. In 2011, Casteel was struggling financially when he spent several thousand dollars on an underwater camera apparatus and started taking pictures of dogs swimming underwater. In 2007, Casteel began volunteering to photograph homeless pets to help them find adoptive families. Casteel is a self-taught professional photographer. Other photographers who are also known for their underwater based work include Michaela Skovranova and Jenna Martin.Seth Casteel is an American photographer, known primarily for his photographs of underwater dogs.Ĭasteel is from Decatur, Illinois, but lives in New York City and Venice Beach, California. He was born and raised in Decatur, Illinois and later settled in Nashville, Tennessee. He is also a television host who is known for having hosted the program Finding Fido on the Z Living channel where he helps families adopt different rescue dogs. The technique quickly became his signature style. After the dog jumped into the pool, he followed him in and started taking photos. He is a self-taught photographer who first started photographing a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Buster in 2010 in California. He also specializes in animal photography and is a New York Times best selling author known for his book Underwater Dogs, Underwater Puppies, Underwater Babies, and several other children's books. Professional photographer who is best recognized for his underwater dog portraits which he shares to Instagram for his over 150,000 followers.
