MY HAPPIEST CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE SITTING ATTHE BOTTOM OF A POOL OR GLIDING ALONG THE BOTTOM WITH MY STOMACH TOUCHING THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL. I JUST LOVED IT.
Soo Burnell’s famous Poolside series came about by chance. Back in January 2018, in love with architecture and shooting water as part of other projects, she visited Glenogle Swim Centre in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. “It was the first swimming pool I shot, and it was actually the swimming pool that I learned to swim in as a child,” says Soo. “It is such a beautiful pool with all the changing rooms around the edge of the pool. When I went back that day to do the shoot, I hadn’t been in it for years and years, yet it was still sitting there looking exactly the same.”