Carlotta Gallery

​​​​​​“BY THE SEA”

A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

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By the sea, perception changes. The coastline offers both openness and boundary, a place where attention becomes more deliberate through repetition rather than demand. Being near water, wind and shifting light encourages a different kind of looking. Forms become unstable, surfaces behave unpredictably, and movement appears steady even when it is not. Observation in this environment is not passive. It requires patience, awareness and a willingness to notice what is often overlooked.

Photographic responses to such conditions vary widely. Some concentrate on material presence, rendering surface, structure or horizon with clarity and restraint. Others engage with less tangible qualities such as weather, distance or disappearance. Photography allows for both. It can hold a moment still, but it can also allow uncertainty to remain. The sea is not only a subject to be pictured. It alters conditions of visibility, and often complicates what appears to be clear.

The works collected here reflect continued attention to coastal environments. Each image carries a distinct perspective, but all emerge from the same physical context. Water, air and light interact constantly with land, with built forms and with the act of looking itself. Rather than explain the sea, these photographs remain in dialogue with it. They record moments of contact, of observation and of response, without fixing them into certainty.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​