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UNDERWATER DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY by {VALERIE MORIGNAT}

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Underwater Digital Photography by Valerie Morignat

All photographs have been taken underwater, some at night in the pacific ocean. As a deep sea photographer and also a graphic artist and an art historian, my inspiration essentially comes from water element, Mythology and Art History. This series includes the “Self-Portrait thinking of Caravagio” which was taken at night in the complete dark, evoking the master of painting Caravagio who first approached the light in a quasi photographic manner. The portrait “Eloquentia Nativa” is an allegorical self-portrait, evoking in a very contemporary way the Vanitas artistic genre and its symbols of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures (bubbles, reflections, mirrors, decaying flowers, etc).
Water is always approached as a character in itself, which externalizes the emotions of the human subjects and evokes the symbolic language of the Baroque period, ancient mythology, and some classical metaphors carried by literature.

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All photos are produced without any computer-generated effects or digital compositing. Inspired by self-portrait tradition, I am often my own model even if I work on assignments with professional models, actors, dancers, and artists who model for me.

Check out Valerie’s other websites:

http://www.valeriemorignat.net/
http://www.fac311.com/morignat/