Past Presence 057
2014
Gelatin silver print

Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo and New York City. His catalogue is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes. Sugimoto photographed this Seascapes series in locations all over the world using a large format camera and often very long exposures (in some cases up to three hours). He is compelled by the visual juxtaposition of the two essential life-giving elements of air and water—always forming the composition so their intersection bifurcates the pictorial plane.