These pulsating Xenids are ever present and always hypnotic. The flow and rhythm of their delicate pulsing tentacles epitomise the zen-like experience of a great dive.

HOOKED is the creative studio of PAUL CARR. Following a 25-year career as an award-winning creative in film marketing he’s returned to a more personal form of expression through his passions for diving, photography and a love of patterns found in the natural world - In these first series he focuses on those found on coral reefs.

“Life is about finding connective moments — whether through the people we surround ourselves with, through nature or art and observation.The more we study the natural world, the more connections we uncover. All life exists through a constitutive web of relationships; nothing exists in isolation. My hope is that, by focusing on the perfectly imperfect details of small beings that together sustain a much larger living system, we might rediscover our own sense of calm and connection in a world that feels increasingly disconnected.”