Originally born in Russia, Elena Kalis has been living in the Bahamas for the past 10 years - she is a full time mother, and after beginning to take her interest in photography to the next level, has become an underwater photography specialist. She began her career in photography, simply by doing occasional underwater projects with her children and their friends. Her photographs have a very strong ethereal, dreamlike nature to them. Most of them are brightly coloured, light and graceful - as this is the effect underwater photography creates - although, there is the occasional dull coloured, emotionally strong piece that leaves me breath taken. There is always a sense of silence in her photography; yet, the ideas and underlying story behind the photographs seem to speak through an emotional conveyance upon a viewer, created by the props used, composition, and colour.
A famous series of hers was an underwater version of Alice in Wonderland; yet, she has cleverly renamed it, Alice in Waterland. In this series, she used her daughter as Alice, and proceeded to set up props throughout her pool, which reflected the themes, certain elements, and overall nature of the books Alice in Wonderland, and Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Other works of hers incorporate a lot of themes of dreaming, like my favourite photo of hers - and the first I came across - which is an interpretation on REM.
I simply love the nature of all her photos, the style and themes of her photography are like nothing I have ever seen before. They are all so elegant, and have such an interesting appearance due to the technique of taking them underwater.
Below are some of my favourite photos of hers.
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