Andreas Franke’s series Sinking World is not coming to a gallery near you. In fact, it’s exclusively exhibited 30 miles off of the coast of Key West, Florida, and a scuba license is required to see the works. These images will stay submerged for several months on a sunken ship, the SS Stavronikita. As the images stay underwater, they gain a crust of ocean life. As Franke states on his website, “sealife enrobes the images, gives them colorful frames and an organic patina. The signature of the ocean, entirely inimitable.”
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The subjects of Franke’s photos depict French Revolution-esque bourgeoise playing on a sunken ship not unlike the SS Stavronikita, and the viewer gets submerged along with them. Though the experience of swimming alongside these decadent images is a separate experience in itself, take a gander of Sinking World below:
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