H2O
Fine Art

H2O

A little journey around Jeppe Heins Appearing Rooms fountain

A solution of water and happy human beings distilled in backlit. No faces, just bodies and gestures against a wall of water.
A tale of joy and silent happy screams during some warm mornings.

Images taken between August 2009 and September 2010 around the Jeppe Hein's Appearing Rooms fountain at The Southbank Centre.

Honourable Mention at:
International Photography Award 2010

20 images
2009 London
Figure submerged in dark water, limbs trailing, identity dissolved by depth 1 / 20
Two bodies suspended beneath the surface, forms overlapping in murky green light 2 / 20
A single figure sinking, arms extended, clothing billowing in the current 3 / 20
Underwater portrait, face obscured by ripple and refraction 4 / 20
Multiple swimmers in formation, seen from above through agitated water 5 / 20
Figure at depth, reduced to silhouette by distance and water opacity 6 / 20
Close study of submerged hands, fingers open, light fragmenting across skin 7 / 20
Body horizontal beneath the surface, caught mid-descent 8 / 20
Two figures intertwined underwater, movement arrested by the shutter 9 / 20
Swimmer rising toward the surface, light breaking from above 10 / 20
Figure in dark water, only the upper torso visible, arms extended sideways 11 / 20
Underwater study of a floating form, water surface visible as a ceiling above 12 / 20
Submerged figure with fabric trailing, movement slowed to near-stillness 13 / 20
Group of bodies in suspension, each isolated by the particular opacity of their depth 14 / 20
Single swimmer, viewed from below, against a diffuse halo of light 15 / 20
Figure descending, arms raised, water compressing the image to near abstraction 16 / 20
Close study of a submerged face, features distorted by the lens and the water 17 / 20
Body in freefall through water, no horizon visible, direction uncertain 18 / 20
Two figures crossing at depth, paths intersecting without contact 19 / 20
Final image in the series: a single form, fully submerged, wholly still 20 / 20
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