Christy Lee Rogers

Aphrodite and Ishtar: Photography

Euphoria: Photography

Sea of Tranquility: Photography

Blue Avian: Photography

Identity: Photography

The Seduction: Photography

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Artist Statement

What I want more than ever is to express and inspire hope and freedom, a sense of wonder and tranquility, to create a safe place to dream wildly, and most importantly to inspire the idea that there are still mysterious, impossibly beautiful things on Earth—not solely in our imaginations.
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It can be dangerous at times because the water is unforgiving; it seeps in the nostrils, it’s cold and has a life of it’s own.  You move where it wants you to move, and the fabrics dance at their own pace.  For the models, being under water shuts off the excessive thought process that we all have going on in our heads, which is wonderful because it allows them to really be themselves completely.

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Christy Lee Rogers was most recently commissioned by James Cameron and Disney to shoot the stars of Avatar - Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet to raise money for The Nature Conservancy.  She is a visual artist from Kailua, Hawaii. Her obsession with water as a medium for breaking the conventions of contemporary photography has led to her work being compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio. Boisterous in color and complexity, Rogers applies her cunning technique to a barrage of bodies submerged in water during the night, and creates her effects using the refraction of light.