Dabble in Water

Underwater Analog Photography

A series of 10

2020

The series of analog photographs capture the movements under the Hong Kong ocean, record how marine life and human-made wastes merge into one. With Eastman Kodak 500T colour negative film vision3 5219 (35mm) extended highlight latitude gives greater flexibility when lighting extreme situations, especially under the water where red defused according to its depth, and let’s pull even more detail out of highlight with the reaction to red. The photos were shot as one with macro lens closeup, one with macro lens far back 1 meter.

Hong Kong is an Islands District, we live here, but can’t leave here. We swim hard, swim fast, and still... Abandoned fishing gears, nets, and hooks become tighter when days pass. It grasps the soil, it grasps the corals and turns into sorrow. And just light can penetrate it.