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I won a photo contest in May... heres what the editor wrote in the newspaper about it:

Famed photographer Diane Arbus once said about her subjects: “Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot … I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don’t quite mean they’re my best friends, but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. … Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”

The sentiment fits for 18-year-old Alice Rice’s photo of a young girl underwater. On vacation from boarding school at Interlochen Arts Academy, the photographer recently went along with her mother to work at a swimming pool. She sneaked into a boiler room and walked through the back, happening upon an underwater viewing box. The lighting was beautiful so she started shooting. Like Arbus, Rice really pulls us in to meet this young girl who is part inquisitive angel, part confrontational alien and all too human.