Here’s another take on the legendary Alice in Wonderland tale, only this time instead of a rabbit hole, Alice fell through the Bahamas ocean. Elena Kalis is a visual artist that has been experimenting with underwater photography for a year or so now. Since she has been living for the last ten years in the Bahamas so it’s only natural that she uses her natural surrounding for her works. And for her latest project, she imagined the classic Lewis Carroll tale, only this time it’s Alice in … Waterland! The results are some really fascinating photos that not only transmit all the surrealism and imagination of the original story, but take it a step forward. Caught between fantasy and reality, the Alice in Waterland series made Alice looks more beautiful than ever and brought together the surreal dreamlike yet still innocent feelings that Lewis Carroll seems intended to do with the original tale.

When asked why she decided to create her own version of Alice for a recent interview at Yatzer, she said “Alice in Wonderland is timeless. It’s open to interpretations and it’s up to you to make them. I decided to make it for a few reasons: this is my all time favorite book, my daughter Sacha is the same age as Alice (10) and very good at modeling underwater and, finally, the story itself seems like from some lucid different place”  underwater perhaps ?

Click here for a full interview at Yatzer

All photos are courtesy and copyright of Elena Kalis

P.S. Check out her monochrome series! Damn Amazing!