Unter Wasser is at once a radical break and a consistent continuation of Hans-Christian Schink's previous work. Known for his perfectly balanced, large-format images, in this project he effects a change in his photographic method and lets controlled chance run free. The setting is biotopes in Germany's most water-rich federal state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: lakes, ditches and so-called kettle holes. These waters arose mostly through the retreat of the ice sheet at the end of the last ice age.