This summer, photographer Michael Dweck released his second book focusing on the East End, water and beautiful women. But his latest photographic endeavor, “Mermaids,” is a departure from his previous projects, featuring a thick library of abstract photos of women in sometimes difficult to decipher poses under water.
Perennially seduced by water and surrounding vistas, Mr. Dweck was also the eye behind the lens for “The End,” a photography book that documented the surfing subculture in Montauk. Last summer, his pictorial, “The Girls of Montauk,” featuring women shot against a backdrop of South Fork beaches, was published in Playboy magazine.
But his most recent project, “Mermaids,” is his first undertaking actually shot underwater, or of women in the water from above the surface.
Similar to the inspiration for “The End,” the idea for... more
Perennially seduced by water and surrounding vistas, Mr. Dweck was also the eye behind the lens for “The End,” a photography book that documented the surfing subculture in Montauk. Last summer, his pictorial, “The Girls of Montauk,” featuring women shot against a backdrop of South Fork beaches, was published in Playboy magazine.
But his most recent project, “Mermaids,” is his first undertaking actually shot underwater, or of women in the water from above the surface.
Similar to the inspiration for “The End,” the idea for... more
