“Lilly pads and Dead Bodies”
Model: Dale Waite
This editorial came about after meeting Dale for the first
time, we were shooting some fine art images with a grey sheet I had borrowed
from my partner’s house and I had nothing particular in mind, I warned him that
I may throw him in the water but nothing specific.
I learned that he had a similar fear of water to myself, and
that sparked inspiration that I had stored for quite some time on an editorial
about my fear of water and anxiety as a whole. Whenever I see murky water my
mind automatically goes to decaying, bloated faces with whited out eyes.
Sometimes it is even at a point where if I can’t see a few metres away from
myself in a swimming pool it is a bit too much, I have a very overactive
imagination - for the purpose of creating it comes in handy but when it comes
to walking in a dark hallway, going to bed with my cupboard open, looking out
windows at night and of course water- it’s not so productive.
I really feel like this editorial has a certain calm to the
surface of it, which represents how we hide our anxiety to act normal around
other people in leading up to an anxiety attack, it is a thin layer that hides
what is lurking underneath, like these Lilly pads, beautifully distracting.
Thank-you so much Dale for putting yourself out there and
modelling in that water for me, I really appreciate it.
This image was accepted into Photo Vogue today...!
