Susan Roche (SusanJRoche)

Under Portrait photographer - ethereal portrait of women, maternity and children. One of my longings is living life fully. Looking towards nature and people to find beauty, believing in goodness in others, that is what I see. I live at both the Jersey shore and in SWFL. Not long after the devastation of Super storm Sandy, I found such peace in an outdoors heated pool. The water brought healing and peace reminding me of when I had babies, and they were fussy, we took a bath. With my children launched my artwork has my complete focus now.

There is beauty in the water, the movements and flow, is something I have always been drawn to. This ethereal beauty is the alluring grace of sharing my underwater work. Combining photography and the alluring underwater world allowed me to share my passion for water and my photographic practice. As my own aqua-photographic techniques developed in 2013, so did my works. As a family portrait specialist, I always have been very comfortable photographing near and something in waste deep in the ocean while my family stood at the shore break, now my camera housing and I create completely underneath the surface. We regularly create art with aquatic maternity and beauty portraits. The amazing ethereal, flowing and weightless quality and wonderful play of light offered by the underwater environment is one that no studio setting could ever replicate.