Stillness isn’t the absence of motion, it’s the presence of something deeper. In Phoebe Fitz’s photographs, stillness becomes a shape, a texture, a tension. It curls around limbs, pools in soft light, and drifts just beneath the surface of water. Her work draws you in with the kind of quiet that demands your full attention. There is power in that hush.

Working almost exclusively underwater, Fitz creates images that feel more remembered than staged. Her subjects, often women, float suspended, weightless yet grounded, as if caught mid-thought or mid-breath. Hair sways, reflections distort, and light fractures into softness. What results is something deeply feminine and emotionally immediate, though not easily explained. It’s not about narrative. It’s about sensation, what it feels like to be in your body, submerged and surrendered, in full communion with the water.

Raised in South Florida and shaped by the natural world around her, Fitz’s relationship to water is both lived and studied. She began her visual career working alongside her father, Emmy-winning cinematographer Tom Fitz, filming for National Geographic and other nature platforms. But her underwater practice has evolved into something more lyrical than documentary, a visual language shaped not by fact, but by feeling.

There is a deep intentionality to her process. She collaborates with dancers and models to choreograph gentle, fluid movements that emphasize grace over drama. Her technical skill, shooting with custom underwater housings and working entirely in natural light, allows her to move freely with her subjects, capturing moments of pure, unforced elegance. In her world, even the bubbles feel composed.

Fitz’s photographs echo themes of transformation, vulnerability, and quiet power. Water, long a symbol of the subconscious and the feminine, is not just her setting, it’s her co-author. It bends and mirrors the body, blurs the line between reality and reverie, and gives form to what cannot be said. The images ask us to slow down and look longer. The longer we look, the more we see—not just the subject, but ourselves reflected.

At a time when so much of photography feels designed to provoke, Phoebe Fitz offers something different: softness with strength, presence without performance. Her underwater worlds are not escape, they are return. Return to breath, to body, to stillness.

This is the shape of stillness: fluid, luminous, and quietly profound. And through Fitz’s lens, it becomes unforgettable. Get in touch with our team to learn more about available works by Phoebe Fitz.