An aquarium lit like the sea
For Ocean Wonders: Sharks!, Focus Lighting studied how light behaves underwater and rebuilt it with lamps.
The New York Aquarium’s Ocean Wonders: Sharks! exhibit is designed to spread a message about ocean conservation1. Its lighting tries to create the illusion of complete immersion1.
To get there, Focus Lighting worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society to understand the natural light in each of the environments the exhibit recreates, and then replicated each one with artificial sources1.
From the project
The project credits list the Wildlife Conservation Society as client, Edelman Sultan Knox Wood as architect, the Portico Group as exhibit designer, and Ryan Fischer as photographer1.
- Focus LightingLighting design
- Wildlife Conservation SocietyClient
- Edelman Sultan Knox WoodArchitect
- Portico GroupExhibit design
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- Focus LightingFocus Lighting — Ocean Wonders: Sharks!Undated page · checked 2026-09-28
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