Christy Lee Rogers: Baroque Photography

Every so often, one comes across a work of art so seemingly impossible that one is forced to ask themselves: How? 

I’m used to asking myself that question most often when spectating the masterpieces from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Without modern technology, Peter Paul Rubens and Caravaggio, just to name a couple, created life-sized and hyper-realistic scenes of grandiose moments in human and religious history: How? When looking at the work of Christy Lee Rogers, an American artist specializing in underwater photography, I found myself in awe for the opposite reason: How does Rogers make the results of a highly technological process feel so surreal? 

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