Winter2016AlertDiver

“In 2008 organizers of a freediving championship invited

me to take pictures. The competition took place in 330

feet of blue water and was staged from a tanker moored

off the coast of Cyprus. The visibility was sensational —

a photographer’s dream. Freedivers swarmed everywhere,

diving up and down the lines from the boat. The

freediver in this image in particular caught my attention

as he looked like he was enjoying the freedom of the

water. His pose says it all. Actually, I shot it the other

way around, as a horizontal with the sun at the top, and

it wasn’t until I got it to the editing table and turned it

that it became the image it is here. It has since been

printed many times for art collectors’ walls.”