#PIXEL101
Conversation with the Masters of Underwater Photography
Capturing Stories that Connect Us to Water
Speaker:
– Zena Halloway [UK] Artist, Photographer and Conservationist
Zena Holloway (1973) is a self-taught, British photographer best known for her distinctive images of people and animals in underwater environments. Her photographic career spans the last thirty years and features in a wide range of publications including National Geographic, Dazed&Confused, Paris Match, How to Spend it, Harpers Bazaar, GQ, Vanity Fair, The Observer, 125, Stylist, Quintessentially Magazine, JFW, Twill, Vision, Neon, Schon, Cent magazine and The Sunday Times.
Her underwater photographic projects have a common narrative that connects people to water and increasingly promote environmental awareness and conservation. In the Hidden Rivers series, she explores the ugly truth of pollution and over-extraction in rivers across Europe, whilst in Seawomen she celebrates the unique knowledge and deep understanding that the Haenyeo of South Korea have for the oceans they harvest. As a keen climate activist, Zena is interested in material science and the biological products and processes that are set to shape our world in the future. In Rootfull she has pioneered a method of cultivating grass to grow in moulds – carved from beeswax. The process channels grass-root into patterns that become speculative coral sculptures. It’s an ongoing, green-art, project created in a bid to expose the beauty and vulnerability of coral and to highlight the devastating bleaching events that are killing vast areas of coral reefs around the planet. Zena lives in London with her husband and their three children in a converted MOD torpedo testing centre.
Moderator:
– Adam Hanlon [UK] Publisher & Editor-at-Large, Wetpixel
Adam Hanlon is an underwater photographer captivated by the challenge and beauty of the underwater world and passionate about its conservation. His images and reports have won international competitions and been used in prestigious publications and by world-renowned organizations. He grew up in South Africa, learned to dive in the mid-1980s and has been pursuing a career “beneath the surface” ever since. He holds recreational and technical diving qualifications up to instructor level from many agencies and dives very regularly.
He is the editor of Wetpixel, the worlds leading resource on all things underwater imaging and through Wetpixel Expeditions, Adam leads regular photography expeditions and workshops around the world. He also owns a successful dive school based near Lancaster, UK.