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Underwater, Nature, Travel Photography. In the local culture, it refers to close friendship based on a common language.

Wantok Photography was established in May 2017 in Honiara, Solomon Islands. “Wantok” is a Melanesian pidgin word derived from the English “one talk”. In a world that is increasingly inter-connected, we feel photography is the universal language, our wantok. Pavlos Evangelidis was born in Athens, Greece and grew up partly in Brussels, Belgium, where he finished the Lycée Français Jean Monnet before

graduating with Honours in Civil Engineering at Imperial College, London, UK. He has been working in development aid and international cooperation at the European Commission first in Brussels, then Fiji and the South Pacific region, Solomon Islands & Vanuatu and Uganda. He married Zeenal in Fiji in 2014. Pavlos became interested in photography slowly, first learning about underwater photography techniques and gradually working in nature, wildlife and travel photography. Pavlos & Zeenal established Wantok Photography to promote environmental conservation and help preserve the beauty of our natural capital from the challenges of climate change and human activity. This is a non-profit effort; any profits are directed to selected charities working for this cause.

25/05/2026

Sorry to interrupt your lunch, mate 🐢
Green turtles are the ocean's gardeners — by grazing on seagrass, they stimulate growth and keep meadows healthy and productive. Seagrass beds are among the most valuable ecosystems on the planet: they support hundreds of species, shelter juvenile fish, and sequester blue carbon at rates rivalling terrestrial forests. Yet they are disappearing globally due to coastal development, pollution, and warming seas. Every turtle grazing these meadows is doing vital work.
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24/05/2026

Home is where you were born, if you're a turtle ☀️🌊
Did you know that female turtles return to nest on the very same beach where they were born? Sometimes after travelling for thousands of kilometres. Mayotte's lagoon, one of the largest barrier lagoons in the world, is a critical feeding and resting ground on their Indian Ocean migrations.

23/05/2026

Between two worlds — a green sea turtle glides through the golden light of a rising sun in the lagoon of Mayotte 🌊🐢
Today is World Turtle Day, and this year there is real reason for hope: green turtles were reclassified from Endangered to Least Concern on the IUCN Red List in 2025 — a testament to decades of global conservation effort. But the story isn't over. In the Indian Ocean, green turtles like this one remain Vulnerable. The lagoon of Mayotte is part of the habitat that still needs protecting.

20/05/2026

Living light.
Iridescence like this doesn't come from pigment — it comes from light itself, bending through microscopic structures in the skin. This colour isn't painted on, it's physics. Squid can shift their appearance in milliseconds — not just for camouflage, but also to communicate, to intimidate, to attract.
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19/05/2026

Four sets of eyes in the dark 👀
Can you see them all? Off the coast of Mauritius — squid hunt in groups, coordinating in ways we're only beginning to understand. Those eyes, optimised for low light, don't miss much. The Indian Ocean after dark is a different world entirely.
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18/05/2026

Midnight hunter.
On a night dive off Mohéli, Comoros, this squid emerged from the darkness — chromatophores firing, iridescent and electric, every colour shifting with intent. Beauty and predation, inseparable.
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16/05/2026

An encounter out of the blue 💙 and the curiosity was reciprocal.

21/01/2026

Master of disguise, terrible at hiding from sunbeams: the leaf scorpionfish.

18/01/2026

Hawksbill turtle feeding and two colourful wrasses taking advantage.

17/01/2026

Entourage. North Horn's greys.

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