interview: David Benz & Melanie Schuler Thanks for doing this interview with THE EYE, can you first give a short introduction, who are David and Melanie? We are the team from Art & Water, founded in 2008, specialising in professional underwaterphotography. Aesthetic, mystical and magical. Images of quirky creatures, mysterious mermaids and sirens, colourful reefscapes and fairytale life from the wide depths of the seven seas. Art & Water? We often get asked what´s behind this name. What is behind this label? Just one click to our website brings clarification. We are presenting extraordinary and distinctive photographs of mermaids and sirens. As underwaterphotographer and dive model we are now hunting together on subjects for photographs in the depths of the oceans, investigating, and writing for over 2 years now. As an involved team of authors and photographers we are travelling for our delighted readers all around the world and are reporting from heavenly diving destinations, superb resorts and the wonderful underwater world on-site. Thereby we are always risking a look behind the scenes, apart from
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