Before We Explain the World

Photography by Lu Heng

4Meeting Other Lives

Below the Surface

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Look past the reef: fish draw the eye into blue water. Closer views bring coral into detail. Water fills each frame, but the distance of the encounter keeps changing.

  1. Fish above a coral reef; A school of small fish moves above a sunlit coral reef in clear blue water.
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    Fish above a coral reef

  2. A large school of fish above coral; A large school of fish moves above pale coral in clear blue water.
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    A large school of fish above coral

  1. Fish in deep blue water; Small dark fish scatter through deep blue water above a distant reef.
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    Fish in deep blue water

  1. The slope of a coral reef; The pale slope of a coral reef drops diagonally into deep blue water.
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    The slope of a coral reef

  2. Coral and a school of fish; A reef wall falls away into blue water beside a school of small fish.
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    Coral and a school of fish

  1. Fish beside the coral; Small fish hover beside a pale coral slope dropping into blue water.
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    Fish beside the coral

  2. A parrotfish above coral; A blue and yellow fish passes above branching coral and scattered stones.
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    A parrotfish above coral