Hiroshi Sugimoto - Seascapes

Baltic Sea , near Rügen - 1996

Ligurian Sea - Saviore - 1993

North Atlantic Ocean - Cape Breton - 1996

Hiroshi Sugimoto fala sobre "Time Exposed:

The first portfolio of seascapes I published was entitled 'Time Exposed' because time 

is revealed in the sea. When I began thinking about the seascapes I was thinking, 

what would be the most unchanged scene on the surface of the earth? Ever since 

the first men and cultures appeared, they have been facing seas and scenes of 

nature. The landscape has changed over thousands, millions of years, man has 

cultivated the ground, built cultures and cities, skyscrapers. The seascapes, I 

thought, must be the least changed scene, the oldest vision that we can share with 

ancient peoples. The sea may be polluted, but it looks approximately the same. So 

that's a very heavy time concept. People have a lot of strange ideas about my 

seascapes - they think these photographs were done using very long exposures, but 

they are in fact very fast because I wanted to stop the motion of the waves, which 

are constantly moving.