It explores responsive inner strength and perseverance, fragility, and vulnerability when confronted with emotional, physical, or cultural challenges that influenced and changed their lives.

As strange and unsettling as some of the images may at first seem, making human shapes almost unrecognizable, they help us recognize each other, however different we are, as fully human.

Barbara Tyroler has been photographing bodies in water with infrared black and white film since the early 80s. She continued these studies using underwater housings for her cameras, holding...