The fit and form of a garment creates life upon the body, slinking into waves of motion or clinging as snaky slithers. Dance contrasts the synchronicity of fabrics that flail and flutter on their own, animated as if moved by a ghost's breath. Underwater fashion photography emphasizes the ethereal, with vibrant colors and bright hues that bleed into spiral rays. Figures are draped in fabrics that take on amorphous dimensions, skirts becoming brilliant fish tails, hair streaming out as tendrils of blooming coral. Eyes gleam as sparkled jewels of iridescent fish, skin glowing with the phosphorescent pallor of electrically ignited sea beings.
Dresses spread like winged manta rays, strokes of color cascading a rhythm of surging sinews.
Water makes the background a liquid womb, capable of menacing with its darkness, or wrapping figures in softened shrouds of light and painted colors. Sunlight and darkness mingle as elements of exposure, making fluid shadows and beams of light slit through the surface. Photographer Howard Schatz makes his underwater images bloom with exotic color, capturing the rapture of bodies stilled in the reflective mosaic of water. The modern world blends subcultures with twisted swatches of fashion and art. Amidst the settings of sprawling cities and towns are many people who seemed to have stepped from canvases.