It is rare that you see underwater photography in black and white, so rare infact that I can't recall a single image/photographer that I've seen before - and this is what makes Wayne Levin's photography so incredible. He creates monochrome foreign landscapes with the movements of waves and rays of light.
I especially like his Surfers set of photographs which creates new landscapes of floating human forms suspended between what looks like a cloudy and troubled sky and a dark looming floor. Another set of his titled 'Fish Schools' creates these new liquid forms that don't even look real. They swarm in and around each other creating new vacuous alien like forms.
Its interesting to look at his work, and to see how such a simple change - such as withholding the colour from what is normally such a colour rich environment - can present something completely foreign to you.
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