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Zena Holloway - Underwater Photography
Zena Holloway lives in London. When she was 18 she was a scuba instructor and traveled around the world teaching others. This profession led her to find her true passion in life—underwater photography. She taught herself almost everything she knows. She uses very unique techniques with unthought-of of props and light sources. She manipulates shutter speed and other elements to truly capture a masterpiece.
Her photos aren’t your average underwater; her photos consist more of models. There is so much thought put into her photos. The models have costumes and have their make-up done. They also pose in distinctive ways. She even works with babies and infants. Infants are hard enough to take “normal” photos of, much less taking underwater photos.
She has won many international awards. And she’s done photo shoots for companies, such as Nike, Herbal Essence, Sony, ect. Her work appears regularly in magazines. She recently finished a project to illustrate the novel The Water Babies.
I absolutely love her photos. I’m a huge fan of underwater photography. However, normally when I think of underwater photography, I think of fish and coral. I have seen in shows such as “America’s Next Top Model” where they make the models attempt to pose underwater. But I’ve never seen anything as great as these photos. She captures so many different ideas. Most of the time she uses women as her models, but sometimes there’s infants and animals. The pictures just fascinate me, since sometimes I have difficulty capturing an image on land.
I’m glad you blogged about Zena Holloway, I too am now in love with her work. Her photos are so vivid, captivating, and unique! You dont normally think of photography underwater, its definately an interesting concept to look more into.