WHAT LIES BENEATH
Oct 28, 2020
4 minutes
BY KRISTEN DESMOND LEFEVRE
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY BY NICK MELE
UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS LEIDY
As an acclaimed underwater photographer who travels the globe capturing impossible images of everything from whale sharks to whelks, Chris Leidy has found the COVID-19-induced ban on international travel to be particularly hobbling.
To keep his creative juices flowing, he’s been developing new techniques and experimenting with environmentally friendly inks. “I create different colors in a bottle and drip them into the ocean and start shooting,” he says of the “Water Ink” images he’s been posting on Instagram during the pandemic. “As they dissipate, they create these beautiful, kind of rolling colors.”
“I love to be able to photograph something from a far-off destination—a little speck of paradise somewhere in the middle of
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