Photographer Zena Holloway

“The Endless Search for Quiet Places” Mannequin sat on the bottom of St Paul’s boys school swimming pool, London 2001. Photographed on 6x7 film camera.

Zena Holloway was born in Bahrain in 1973 and raised in London.

Her interest in underwater photography started when she was 18 while working her way around the globe as a scuba diving instructor. Charmed by the magic of the underwater world, she began experimenting with a camera and gradually taught herself the skills needed to master this most technical of photographic techniques.

Her images are striking, instinctive and driven by a deep understanding of her medium. She delivers the remarkable, combining the highly technical aspects of underwater photography with superb creative direction resulting in extraordinary, ethereal and magical imagery evocative of mystical fairytales suspended in time. She has taken underwater photography to entirely new depths.

Sea Guardian 2

Zena’s renowned underwater photography appears regularly for publications such as How to Spend it, GQ, The Observer Magazine, 125, Tatler and Dazed & Confused.   

She has won many international awards and her commercial clients include: Nike, Umbro, Radox, Kyle Minogue, Sony, Epson, Herbal Essences, National Geographic and Jacuzzi.

Cypriot Diver (2001) paper size 594 x 420mm Printed on Hahnemühle archival white, matt cotton paper, 305gsm. Photographed at the world championships off the coast of Cyprus; the water was so clear that day that it was like watching freedivers learning to fly.

"My work tests the connection we have with our oceans, lakes and waterways and aims to engage the imagination, to make links with what lies below the surface and to dive deep into the unconscious mind. Science tells us that our emotional response to being near and around water comes from the oldest parts of our brain; a part that evolved even before language. We are all creatures of the ocean but modern living often separates us from these natural instincts. " - Zena Holloway

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