Photography
#Jack Long #water
Tiers of Dyed Water Burst into Perfectly Concentric Circles in Jack Long’s Energetic Photos
All images © Jack Long, shared with permission
For at least a decade, Jack Long has paired his day job in advertising photography with a growing archive of personal projects that explore the energetic, dynamic qualities of liquid. His latest series centers on circular pools of water that splash outward, creating colorfully tiered layers that build up the dimension of a typically gravity-bound material. Although the liquid appears to be spraying outward after being punctured by an object dropped from above, it is actually gurgling upward from a custom-designed fountain. Long shares with Colossal that the machine took about two years to build and produces pools that reach about 30 inches in diameter, which he has to photograph within a fraction of a second to capture the perfectly concentric effect.
You can find more of Long’s hypnotic works on Behance, Instagram, and his site.
#Jack Long #water
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