Jacob Sutton is a fashion photographer, based in London, and I happened upon his work in this tweet from Heather. To me, a number of things collide onto these evocative, haunting photographs -
Underwater Girl: something sensuous yet eerie, something earthbound yet beatific. Honestly, they reminded me of Ophelia, who had the misfortune of being drawn to Hamlet, in the midst of his bizarre sorrow, and who falls into a brook and drowns to death.
There is another sequence of photographs in Sutton's website -
Flour Power - which are just as stunning but in a very different way. A young man falls backward onto a flat block of flour. He gets up, dusts himself off, and stomps on the flour, and falls in a heap. It's an amusing yet somber explosiveness, and the young man is covered in the remnants of his emotions. Sutton photographs the careless mounds of flour in the aftermath of those emotions.
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