‘I started working with Triggerfish, as well as our University swim team. His underwater series began when he started shooting members of Ontario’s LGBT Triggerfish water polo team. ‘I’ve always had an affinity for water, so I’m in my happy place when shooting in it.’ I have personally always found solace in the water, and I try to share that emotion with my audience through the images that I create.
‘My underwater work poses physical, emotional and conceptual challenges both in the creation and the interpretation. Murnaghan says he only began experimenting with underwater photography in December 2016, although he had been doing surf photography for several years prior to this. ‘Through my photography, I explore feelings, emotions and memories that we all feel from our childhood that are either unprocessed or suppressed and try to emote them through my subjects in an unexpected yet familiar setting.’ ‘I’ve always had an affinity for water’ ‘I started photography to explore a different side of myself and discovered an aesthetic eye and artistic voice that I never knew existed. His full-time job is as a surgeon in a hospital. He tells GSN that he does photography as a hobby.
Lucas Murnaghan, 41, lives his partner of the past ten years in Toronto.
A gay photographer based in Canada is picking up a huge following on social media because of his incredible underwater images.
