06 x Thick Skin

A female blacktip reef shark with healed mating scars cruises through the shallows of the lagoon. Mating in the shark world is highly volatile, often resulting in injury to the females. The males of the population use their teeth and jaws to attach to the female in order to mate. For this reason, females of the species have 2-3x thicker skin than the males allowing them to survive the brutal reproduction cycle. I think females of the human kind can resonate with feeling the pressure to have thicker skin than their male counterparts in order to survive. And also with the feeling that we often risk losing ourselves on behalf of love. Kori Burkhardt is an underwater photographer, expedition l...View all