Ode to Water

In a recent conversation with the editor of a New York based magazine, I was askedhow and what had initially attracted me to photographing underwater. My instinctive reaction was ‘how can anyone resist…?’ We’ve all felt it at some stage – the harmonising effects on mind and body. Be it in the open ocean or in a quiet moment somewhere alone. Many free-divers describe being underwater as a return to self… Where one calmly looks inside and becomes much less conscious of what is happening around