The art of making waves

Rachael Talibart Rachael is best known for her series Sirens. She is the owner of f/11 workshops, and hosts residential courses for Ocean Capture. Her latest book, Tides and Tempests, will be available soon.See rachaeltalibart.com, f11workshops.com and oceancapture.com.

For someone who describes themselves as ‘a poor swimmer and a poorly sailor’ it seems incredible that award-winning photographer Rachael Talibart chose the sea as her muse. ‘I’m afraid of the sea,’ she laughs. ‘I think it’s dead scary, but that’s part of its appeal to me. You feel very alive when you’re afraid.’ A former solicitor, Rachael has spent a large chunk of her life at university, where she studied the sublime – a term sometimes used to describe the delicious terror we experience when faced with