Wrapped up

Tomohide Ikeya is a Japanese photographer who has turned the his hobby of scuba diving into a conceptual body of work.

Here is a selection from her "MOON" collection

I love these photos because they incorporate three things I am absolutely infatuated with.
Water, hair & the moon.
The dark eeriness of the photographs combined with the stillness of the water creates a whole new dimension of reality for the viewer.  The photos seem to have a depth that you can't really explain.  The "moonlight" reflecting on the water just add to this, and give texture to the pieces.  

I would expect the birth of a mermaid to be something like this.

"I'm a photographer who has a concept of "Control" for my work.

Water is one of "uncontrolled" things which the human being never can to do.

I had a lot of opportunities to think about ‘water’ with doing scuba diving in several countries as a hobby.

The beauty of sunshine viewed from under water, daily life of aquatics and me as human just be able to see their world for a moment...

We thought human could control water if we had lots of equipments and cared for risks in water, but human never be able to live in water. And we also never be able to live without water.

Water doesn’t only give a life, but also takes a life. On the other hand, water is not the Mother of Creation or the Master of Destruction, it’s just be there as ‘water’.

Water is a philosophical existence very much even be as ’just water’.  I had been fascinated with water more and more and I had gotten a zeal for expression it.

It is one of reasons which I became a photographer, so I have been creating 

my works which has a relation with water.

I'm expressing "enthusiasm for life" by photography throughout the figure of Water and Human."

http://tomohide-ikeya.com