Photography for The Art Of Diving: UwP interviews Alexander Mustard

Alex Mustard · Issue 29, Mar/Apr 2006 · pp. 50–53

Products mentioned: The Art Of Diving

The Art Of Diving is a new book which is reviewed on page 53. Since Alex is a regular contributor and friend of UWP he happily agreed to give us a few honest insights into this project. UwP: Congratulations Alex, your first book The Art Of Diving looks fantastic. I am sure many readers have ambitions to do books. How did this project start? AM: Actually Nick Hanna (the writer) contacted me. He had seen my photos in a selection of winning images from the Antibes Festival and had the idea for a feature, The Zen Of Diving, and emailed me to see if I wanted to photograph it. I have always thought it was appropriate that the French Riviera had a hand in bringing us together, as it was there in the 1930s that Cousteau and Hass both first experienced the underwater world. Anyway, I was in Cayman when I got Nick’s email and that afternoon took a few shots while I was out experimenting with filte…