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The real-life mermaids

Posted Mar 3, 2009

If like us, you seem to be constantly gasping for air - it's time to slow down and take a look at a series of serene photographs of submerged beauty.

Currently exhibiting at the Gallery Orchard in Nagoya, Japan, 2009 until March 14th, is a solo exhibition from photographer Michael Dweck.

The exhibition explores the theme of the female nude submerged in water. It's a simple sexy elegance that uses only water, light, and the lens to capture a modern yet elusive snap.

 

 

 

 

 

Some of Dweck’s subjects come from Aripeka, an island fishing village on the gulf coast of Florida, and have spent much of their lives in and around the water and are capable of holding their breaths underwater for as long as five to six minutes. Photographed in Montauk and Amagansett, but mostly in the vicinity of the Weeki Wachee River in Florida, Dweck’s work is a little reminder to occasionally leave the heels at home and enter the meditative isolation of the underwater world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source & Photo Credit: www.michaeldweck.com/

 

 

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