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Gas mask inside the Fujikawa Maru, Truk Lagoon​
 

Photographer of the Week Larry Cohen has been taking images below the surface since the late eighties. Cohen began his career as a commercial photographer and now assists customers with their underwater camera equipment purchases at B&H Photo. Based in New York City, Larry is the co-founder of NYUPS—the New York Underwater Photography Society—and previously, president of the NYC Sea Gypsies dive club. Larry is the photo section editor of X-Ray Magazine and has been featured in various magazines internationally. He can be found quite frequently presenting on his underwater escapades with his dive buddy, Olga Torrey.

While Larry has been scuba diving in diverse environments around the world, he still enjoys shooting in his own backyard. He has photographed a wide variety of subject matter, including eerie wreck scenes, intricate cave systems, and even below the ice in the chilly waters of Newfoundland. As exciting as all of that seems, he still loves shooting beautiful reef scenes in tropical waters. The result is a wide-ranging portfolio of underwater images that are as technically impressive as they are creatively composed.
 

Nurse shark and moray eel buddies, Cozumel, Mexico​
 

Cenote Chac-Mool in Riviera Maya, Mexico​
 

Ocean pouts on the wreck of the Resor off of Point Pleasant, New Jersey ​
 

Olga Torrey exploring the Hilma Hooker wreck, Bonaire​
 

Olga Torrey explores a magic forest of giant metridium anemones in Alaska’s frigid waters​
 

Free-swimming remoras in Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen), Cuba
 

Giant manta ray around San Benedicto Island, Islas Revillagigedos, Mexico
 

Cuttlefish on the reef, Pom Pom Island, Malaysia ​
 

Olga Torrey explores the wheel house of the SS Keystorm wreck, Thousand Islands, New Y​ork
 

Larry Cohen
 

See more of Larry’s fantastic underwater photography on the website, www.liquidimagesuw.com.