Water Portraits

Water Portraits is a visual study on the interaction between light, water and a subject. Developed through repeated underwater sessions with the same model, the series isolates the face as a site of transformation, where shape, light, and liquid converge. Though the model remains constant, her appearance shifts with every frame, altered not by gesture but by the mechanics of refraction and flow. Water operates not as a backdrop but as an active optical tool: an unstable lens that bends light and fractures form.
Each session becomes a procedural experiment: the subject is immersed, the camera waits, and it is the liquid itself, its pressure, its turbulence, its temperature, that determines an always different visual outcome.
The resulting images are close-up studies that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Printed at a 1:1 scale and sequenced chromatically from red to blue, the series references the visible light spectrum, transforming the face into a fluid, shifting surface that functions less as a portrait and more as a diagram of perception under changing conditions.