Austrian art photographer Andreas Franke introduced a brand new way to experience art when he unveiled his underwater exhibit in the Atlantic Ocean.
Divers could view a dozen of his images hung in the USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg as part of his exhibit titled Vandenberg: Life Below the Surface. The ship was intentionally sunk as an artificial reef near Key West in Florida in May 2009.
"Even though there is so much life, marine life, all over and around it, the shipwreck itself, to me, is a dead thing," Franke told KeysNews. "But I thought that if I put people on it, then there would again be life on that ship."
The photos, which were fastened with powerful magnets, show the lives of people living in the 1940s, around the time the ship launched.
"Fortunately, no one died tragically in this shipwreck," Franke added. "Anyone can interpret the images how they want, but I like to think of the shipwreck as a theater or a stage, with people acting on it."
This was just one of many of the artist's underwater exhibits, which also includes 2013's Stavronikita Project: The Life Above Refined Below, featuring wealthy people from the Rococo era in 18th century Paris. It was shown on the SS Stavronikita, a Greek freighter off the coast of Barbados.
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