"Backscatter is the reflection of particles, waves, or signals back to the direction from which they came: in underwater photography, back to the lens. The reflection, however, is diffuse, as opposed to clear like a mirror, thus softening images and even making them obscure.
For this book, Tom Young has embraced backscatter as both subject and metaphor to render spaces below and above the water's surface--between here and there--in highly original...