Laura Clairmont

Laura Clairmont is award winning underwater photographer, cinematographer and painter. Originally from Czech republic, currently based in U.S., after twenty years of living in different parts of the world. She grew up exposed to art and culture through the passion of her dad’s dark room and her mom’s fairy tales and story books. She started diving at the age of twenty-two and has never stopped. To show her mom that the underwater world was a safe one, she purchased her first little point and shoot camera to bring back images to share. She quit her job in corporate and decided to follow her dreams through photography, diving and painting. Laura is specialised in underwater portraits and creating unique underwater sets for her clients and especially for her personal projects. She call it „food for my soul“. Her images have been published world wide, in magazines, album covers and book covers. Using her multitalented capabilities, each image is the result of a vision, a note, a drawing, a memory followed by a complex work of creating her own costumes and props, make-ups, drawing and painting her own backgrounds and coordinating people above and below the water. Photography is in a way a very small part of the entire creative process that sees Laura involved in each and every aspect with the same energy and passion. Laura is mostly known for her photography work, but she works as well as cinematographer or underwater supervisor and coach for film and advertising industry. She is also coaching her students worldwide. Her free time she devote to her dearest hobby, and this is painting. Laura’s paintings are full of fantasy a personal feelings, inspired by pop surrealistic art, mostly fairytales and Big Eyes. She is using mixed technique, mainly oil on desk. Laura is available for photography and motion worldwide.