Immersion

Underwater Dance photography

Immersion

In this underwater series, a highly controlled environment invites dancers to yield to the embrace of liquid instead of the greater forces of gravity that they normally experience

Tina’s artistry in this project is informed by her unique interests and experiences. Prior to her career in photography she worked in fashion as the owner of an admired bridal boutique and well knows the connection between attire and personal actualization. In addition to photography, Tina is an Elizabethan lutenist and well-studied in Renaissance and Baroque music and art. Her lighting and placement of the human figure has a monumental and dimensional effect reminiscent of the Baroque sculpture of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. A long-term student of the legendary movement teacher Fanchon Shur, and trained in Feldenkrais and Alexander movement techniques, Tina is adept in encouraging her subject’s presence through considered posturing, spatial awareness, observation of the subject’s habitual patterning and instinctive mindfulness in motion. In her hands, the work is not a fashion shoot or a headshot, commercially contrived or voyeuristic; it is a true portrait.