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Erin Mulvehill’s Underwater Portraits Are Ethereal and Beautiful

Chris Gampat
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03/08/2013
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Last Updated on 03/08/2013 by Chris Gampat

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All Images shot by and used with Permission from Erin Mulvehill

Erin Mulvehill is a Brooklyn, NY based photographer that graduated from Syracuse University at the super early age of 20. On her site, I Can Freeze Time, she features a series of underwater portraits that she created that has also been shown in many countries.

She’s also done some other really cool projects. For starters, The Camera Project is about giving cameras to children all over the world and them taking pictures and talking about their environment. Head over to her website to see more. But first check out her other underwater portraits after the jump.

 

From Erin about the Underwater series,:

“I was in my final year of university at the time and was feeling really jaded. perhaps as a result, I began having very vivid dreams. when I would awake from the dreams, so much was going through my head that I would have these blurry flashes of images, combined states of dream and reality, in my mind. as an artist, I wrote as much i could to describe what I felt and what I saw to better understand the imagery.

I went to the studio straight away and began trying to translate these images from my dreams into a photograph. after several attempts, in the studio, I finally came up with a setup that created an image with a similar effect to my current ‘underwater’ images. it took a bit longer to perfect the technique, but I remember feeling this overwhelming rush of combined excitement and relief when I saw the image on the screen. it should be noted that the effect you see in the ‘underwater’ series was all done in camera and not in post.

It’s a very powerful experience translating a mental/emotional state into a visual idea. never before, and very rarely since, have I experienced this same intensity of feeling. as a follower of buddhist beliefs, these images really resonate with me because they represent different individuals caught in a transitory state. we are all ever-changing and ephemeral beings, so I believe everyone can relate to the sense of rebirth captured in the images.”

 

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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