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Beautiful Photos of Beautiful Women in Beautiful Places

$ Dweck:That’s a good question, because Mermaids was unlike anything I’d ever done. Normally – as with Montauk or Habana – I have a narrative in mind, a story I want to tell through images. With Mermaids” the technique itself was the initial draw. I wanted to do something with light, lenses and water. The idea came while I was out fishing late at night in Montauk – I only fish at night, after midnight. Imagine: it’s quiet at that time of night, the water gets inky and makes the moonlight roll between a metallic and almost milky completion. Your eyes start to play tricks on you. You see things below the surface that are probably dolphins or maybe sharks – or maybe there’s nothing there at all – but you let your mind wander until you’re thinking “What if I was suddenly tossed overboard and saw these beautiful women playing in the water?” When I began photographing the project, I was staying in Paris right near the Orsay Museum. So I’d be flying between France and Florida with all of these Impressionistic images in my head – and I’d throw all of that into the water. “In you go” – Monet and the refracted form of a crab fisherman’s daughter; Renoir and the shadows of the Weeki Wachee River. When I get abstract, I get abstract.$

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