sea

 

"Look carefully. Your eyes will get used in the dark and you ‘ll see them. As the mice they ’ll begin to emerge from their hiding places", Sakis says and laughs. Indeed, behind the shadows and through the dense fog of the cold night appear one behind the other the little boats, laden with illegal nets, the famous crystals. The crystals are transparent nets with very small opening, causing irreparable damage to the already damaged bottom of the sea in Mesolongi town not far away from Athens, Greece. It is for this reason, that they have been banned by law.

 

I've been working on "Taganoe's sea" for about four years. The purpose is to use only the line (pencil, marker, ballpoint pen), in a instinctive way: all that is felt by the eye is transferred to paper in a few minutes, with the following proportion errors, and without corrections. So I can use the line, the sign, as primary, direct expression, free from the prejudice, the influence of acdemic drawing. The whole work of Taganoe is oriented to the human figure.

in the caleta beach, Cádiz. people used to be part of a natural landscape that fits perfectly with the tipical idea of the southern character of the town. Surrounded by the sea , Cádiz is a small town in the south of Spain where light ,colors, and joy are part of the main character.

My father is a boatbuilder. He loves the sea, boats, the wide expanse, the freedom. When I was a child, he left my mother and I behind at home in Ireland to work with Greenpeace, recording Whale activity off the coast of the Azores. I remember him training for the trip, doing a navigation course. He would come home with photocopies of blank signal flags, I would colour them to spell messages and watch him doing calculations as though it was a kind of magic.

When he returned from his voyage, the sea had bitten him. He couldn't get enough of the ocean.

Deep within the bizarre confluence of ruler-straight lines and flamboyant squiggles that make up the map of Central Asia lies a former Soviet republic called Karakalpakstan, a semi-autonomous enclave of Uzbekistan. This vast stretch of land was the site of one of the twentieth century's most horrific environmental disasters - the disappearance of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water.

Eduardo has been living in this boat for ten years in Santiago de Cuba's Key. He often fishes by the day and lives of what he can get. These photographs have been taken as part of a documentary called "La Marea".

Zandvoort is a small city in the Netherlands at the North sea. It was the first time I saw the sea and it impressed me in so many ways. I wanted to catch the whole scene with my camera and keep it as a memory. The storm clouds, the furious sea, the flying seagulls, and some people just hanging around... They all made the perfect mood I could imagine... If you are interested in my other works, please visit Overtoner Photography