(Photo: Georgette Apol Douwma)
The June issue ofNational Geographicspotlights Georgette Apol Douwma’s psychedelic underwater imagery.
A scuba diver until she was 79, Douwma remixes her underwater photos of coral into kaleidoscopic masterpieces.
TheNatGeo storyhighlights the artistry of these pieces, which allow the colors of coral reefs to pop.
Swimming past corals in Indonesia’s West Papua Province, Yellowback fusiliers appear to quadruple in number after Douwma edited a 2017 photograph. (Photo: Georgette Apol Douwma)
Coral first captured Douwma’s imagination when she visited the Great Barrier Reef in the 1970s.
For the following 40 years, she was an active diver who accumulated an impressive archive of imagery.
After hanging up her diving gear in 2020, she began remixing the photographs.
Photographer Georgette Apol Douwma’s technique involves altering her earlier pictures, such as one taken in 2015 of corals in the Red Sea, to create new eye-catching displays. (Photo: Georgette Apol Douwma)
The results are a mesmerizing look at life underwater.
In the time since she began this artistic journey, she estimates that she’s edited thousands of photographs.
See more of Douwma’s photography onNatGeo.comor in the June 2024 issue ofNational Geographic.
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