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Freediving in False Bay, Cape Town, more often than not is done in murky and cold water. As I navigated my way through the kelp to reach some clearings in deeper water out the back,  I sensed movement and turned to look. I watched as a school of maybe a thousand mullet or “Harders” swam through the kelp forest. They glided by so silently and I realized there is so much that we potentially don’t see, our vision limited by goggles and conditions. Several thousand fish could’ve easily passed me by entirely unnoticed and it made me think how much else we don’t see. I shot a single frame and the shot was gone. I love the decisive moment.
I think it was the silence and the atmospheric conditions that made me notice this image on the contact sheet. I printed this Black and White negative in the darkroom using the specialized Lith Printing process. The grainy duotone look this print process creates accurately portrayed the sea conditions, the mood and the ghostly feel that I was left with on my dive.

This series of prints remains some of my favorite and most treasured work.