Claudia Sherwood captures through her camera lens, a world that usually remains invisible: the underwater microcosm, as shaped by the enchanting play of light, shadow, reflection and patterns in the organic textures of nature. She focuses on the aesthetics, structure and transformative energy of the natural elements while the dynamics of water are rendered with rhythm, depth and internal energy.
The result is an almost unreal, dreamlike depiction – a landscape that merges the visible with the invisible, the realistic with the abstract.
Sherwood exploits the properties of water not just as a photographic object, but as an active means of transforming the image. The refraction of light, fluid movements and pulsating reflections create an impressionistic photographic effect. This is further imagined in the medium of Plexiglas backing which is also reflecting like the sea.
Through her underwater photographs, she invites us to reflect on man’s relationship with nature, the fragile balance of marine ecosystems and the need to reconnect with the environment in times of ecological crisis.
