Liudmila Kostina

In French, the words "la mer"(sea) and "la mère" (mother) are pronounced identically—a beautiful allegory for the maternal nature of the sea. An underwater portrait is an attempt to return the body to the time when we were formed in silence and weightlessness within a mother’s body. Every person begins life in water and subsequently loses that experience. Underwater, faces change: familiar facial expressions vanish, and one does not hold a pose for the camera, as water does not allow for the sam