PEOPLE 79:

PRISCILLA SOH IN

美人鱼

PORTRAITS • JUL 2012 • THE TAMARIND, KUALA LUMPUR

Underwater portrait is all the craze now, and here's my interpretation of the magical world beneath with Priscilla.

The first thing that we quickly realised was that, contrary to the claims of non-swimmers, it's actually really hard to sink downwards, and we were struggling to go lower in order to position ourselves into more interesting angles. We also only had two hours to complete the shoot, that's the narrow timeframe when the pool enjoyed the blessing of full sunlight before the shadows of the condo blocks set in.

The only extra gear that I used to allow us to shoot underwater is this wonderful soft casing from Dicapac, bought online at a price that is just a small fraction of those impossibly-priced hard casing.