‘It was -10 in the air, but nearly 40 degrees in the water’: Magali Chesnel’s best phone picture

It wasn’t till Magali Chesnel was on her flight again to Geneva that she found out why the folks she’d seen swimming earlier that day had been carrying bin baggage on their heads. After every week of solo journey across the south of Iceland, the French photographer had spent the morning on the well-known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, only a brief drive from the airport. Returning dwelling, she realised her hair had turned coarse and brittle from the silica within the swimming pools. “When you ever go to, use hair conditioner! Or a rubbish bag!” she warns.

Whereas she anticipated the photographs she took of the bag-wearing bathers to be her favourites, it was really this one which got here out finest. The six Icelandic teenage boys had been laughing, chatting and consuming ice-cold slushies in 38C water in a scene that later reminded her of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Final Supper. “I studied artwork after I was youthful. I like my pictures to have a component of confusion; are they a photograph or a portray?” Chesnel says.

She was travelling together with her Nikon D500 however, involved about damaging it within the water, she wrapped her iPhone in plastic as a substitute. She later did small edits to the picture utilizing the Snapseed app. “It was -10C within the air, however almost 40C within the water, and foggy, so all I wanted to do was modify the sunshine and brightness a bit.”

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