Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. … - Hiroshi Sugimoto

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No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

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However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

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Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

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Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world. . . Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.

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If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

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The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes will still exist. Our presence is temporary. Civilization is only 5,000 to 6,000 years. The history of ours, the material history of consciousness, is rather short.

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