“In Schatz’ first underwater book, WaterDance, he brought his remarkable eye to bear on the challenge of energizing the human body in an essentially languid environment. In Pool Light, he plumbs the depths not only of water, but of emotion, feeling, and eroticism.

“There is something uncanny about the photograph though at first you can’t be sure what it is. Lithe and athletic, exquisitely real, the body seems nevertheless like something seen in a dream, weightless and rising. A provocateur of yearning. Beads of moisture cling to her skin. Could anyone so pale and perfect perspire? The drops glow, like a constellation of small, bright stars. Then you realize what it is that’s different: the ‘drops’ are ‘bubbles’; the woman is underwater. She is in a dreamscape, an object of desire, out of reach, as elusive as she is erotic. Aphrodite was born out of the sea. Howard Schatz has taken her back home.”
Owen Edwards, from introduction.