CNN STYLE INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTY LEE ROGERS

“Among those who call "underwater photography" their specialty, Christy Lee Rogers stands apart.

Instead of immersing herself in water, she instead follows its movement and that of models dreamily wading, by shooting from above. "I think what I do differently than most underwater photographers is that I am shooting from above the water and I'm using (the) refraction of lights," the Nashville-based photographer and filmmaker told CNN. "So you get this sort of bending (effect)."

Rogers has taken more than 15 years to develop her technique, earning multiple accolades along the way, including the Sony World Photography Award for Open Photographer of the Year in 2019. The "otherworldly" quality of her work comes from constant experimentation.”

Written by Tomeka Jones, CNN

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COLNAGHI FOUNDATION AND ART HISTORIAN ISABELLE KNET INTERVIEW CHRISTY LEE ROGERS

In an interview of contemporary photographer Christy Lee Rogers by the Colnaghi Foundation, a non-profit London organisation with the purpose of promoting Old Masters, art historian Isabelle Kent compares Christy's works to Rubens.

Isabelle, who lectures at the Victoria and Albert Museum and was a Curatorial Assistant at the Wallace Collection, said:

"Christy is best known for her pioneering use of water and pools in her photography... Christy's art plays with themes of strength and vulnerability, loss and beauty... creating ethereal and otherworldly images full of color and billowing fabrics. They have often been compared to Baroque paintings, in particular the likes of Caravaggio and I certainly think her multi-figure works, with all of their movement, really remind me of Rubens."

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