on a blue canvas freediving photography by Daan Verhoeven
Prints available at The art of breath hold sounds a bit pretentious, doesn t it Everybody has tried holding their breath, there isn t much art to not doing something. But when you look a bit closer, ask expert breath holders (yes, they exist), you ll find that there is indeed much more to it even some art. It s like that with most matters leave it to the experts to find wonder in seemingly simple things. I ve been freediving for almost 20 years and documenting it professionally since 2012, slowly and almost unwittingly drifting into expert territory, and the longer I practise both, the more art I see. That might be due to a slightly romantic perspective, having eyes that see beauty everywhere, but there s also an objective, or at least general, aspect to it: human are beautiful, water is wondrous, hence humans in water is magic. No OK, some people splash around in water like electrocuted spaghetti, but watching a good freed
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