There is something about being underwater that makes me feel both incredibly present, but also safe and tremendously separate from everything.

I was drawn to a literal interpretation of the theme 'current' and felt compelled to immerse myself in the sea for these shots.

I had borrowed a Nikon camera in an underwater housing and once I was in the water I quickly realised I didn't know what I was doing. The water was murky and kept pushing me around in surges with the tide. Those first few times in the water, I was so out of my depth, not only being pushed around, but also trying to figure out where the buttons on the Nikon were was a very frustrating process.

I then decided to buy a simple underwater bag and began to shoot with my Canon, which I am much more familiar with and the images began to get clearer, but funnily enough – less interesting.

Those first images I managed to get were blurry and abstract and remained the most evocative to me. So I have ended up where I began with these ghost-like images that, to my mind, best convey the fleeting and transient moments that I experienced underwater. These images open a dialogue on the interpretations of 'current' on different levels; firstly the literal current of the sea, which I experienced while photographing and secondly, capturing the current moment as an ephemeral and haunting image that speaks more to a feeling than a detail of the present moment.