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(Image: Jean-Marie Ghislain/ghislainjm.com)

IT鈥橲 looking at you, with its mouth slightly open. For , meeting this thresher shark was a moving experience, because it is a timid and distant animal. Not, perhaps, the impression that most of us would form if we came face to face with a 3-metre shark. Especially one that uses an incredible elongated tail as a whip to stun its prey before eating it.

But Ghislain is on a mission to rehabilitate the image of sharks. He set up , a non-profit organisation aimed at educating people on the plight of sharks around the world. This shot was taken in Malapascua in the Philippines, a site renowned for encounters with threshers. He shoots in black and white when the conditions would otherwise make the image saturated with blues. 鈥淭his meeting touched me deeply,鈥� Ghislain writes in his new book, . 鈥淚ts gaze is reminiscent of a frightened animal and its wide eyes reinforce the impression that you are looking at a cartoon character.鈥�

The pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus, feeds on small fish, so isn鈥檛 a danger to humans. But that doesn鈥檛 mean it is safe from us. Sports fishermen target it, and it is also sometimes killed as by-catch in drift nets and longline fishing. And according to the IUCN Red List, which , the pelagic thresher has a slow life cycle, hampering its ability to recover from such exploitation.

This article appeared in print under the headline 鈥淎 face in the dark鈥�