UNDERWATER in ART

Web collection of underwater photography, video, paintings and more...

The great depths of the ocean aren’t accessible to everyone, but the mysterious beauty of this underwater world can still be seen thanks to the work of many brave photographers. One of these adventurous people is landscape photographer Marcio Cabral who created the project entitled Anhumas Abyss.

Located in Brazil, Anhumas Abyss is an underwater cave that is accessible by rappelling down roughly 235 feet through a large gap in the rocks. Upon arrival to the base of the cave, Cabral proceeded to dive underwater to capture the enchanting world that lives below the surface, inspired by the streaming spotlight of light that occurs just a few days each year when the sun aligns perfectly with the small opening at the top of the cave. Marcio Cabral’s website   source

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Austrian photographer and deep sea diving enthusiast Andreas Franke has released a new series titled Stavronikita Project: The Life Above Refined Below being exhibited deep at the bottom of the Caribbean right off the coast of Barbados. Andreas Franke website souce

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Models swim with whale sharks in an underwater fashion shoot. Photos ©Shawn Heinrichs& Kristian Schmidt / Barcroft Media

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John Grant - The Language of Water, 2010 

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Marine microworlds: The private life of plankton

The Tara research vessel has recently completed a 70,000-mile journey around the world’s oceans collecting data on plankton biodiversity. The international team of scientists have discovered over one million new species on their voyage and produced amazing images of plankton using groundbreaking technology. 

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Artist Sue Austin has been wheelchair-bound since 1996…She has created, with the support of diving experts, an underwater wheelchair outfitted with a propeller and fins that allow her to steer. With it, she gracefully hovers through the deep ocean, mingling with fish and flying past coral reefs. The wheelchair is equipped with a clear fin, making the artificial device seem slightly less out of place in the serene ocean.” source source

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Surfer by Lucia Griggi ( National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

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Surfer by Lucia Griggi ( National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

Chis Mollison Underwater Photography 

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More underwater sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor

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Most gorgeous mermaids you’ve ever seen! by Chris Crumley

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Pooled Oil Paintings by Matthew Davis

Berlin-based artist Matthew Davis creates these surreal images by using his brush to slowly drip oil paints into small pools. After each color dries over a period of several days a new layer is added resulting in a dense, multi-dimensional surface…souce

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Christy Lee Rogers Interview 

Fabrics act like paints blending and bleeding into each other under water.  It’s incredible to watch, never knowing what crazy interactions will occur.”

The gravity pull on the body changes underwater, so you get this freedom of movement that’s obviously unearthly.  Light also travels differently underwater and I’m never un-amused by the way it strikes the body, or accentuates ordinary colors.  With a little play of light and movement, you can actually bend and distort the body, which I’m endlessly fascinated with.  I don’t feel I would be able to properly express myself without the magic of the water.”

The motion of bodies intertwined in a chaos of color and agitation, twisting in all directions, lost and at the same time, triumphant in energy and life.” 

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