Sea Pictures

Part of the project The Act of Looking

Sea Pictures (Dominique)_FR-LM2
2025

Sea Pictures is part of The Act of Looking project, which is devoted to the phenomenology of gaze. The series exposes and both reflects on the conditions that trigger the very act of "deep looking" — from the everyday spectacles people linger on (fire, work sites, water) to the more specific obsessions (highways viewed from bridges, the ocean at night etc).

Shot on various coasts in Europe, Sea Pictures deliberately omits faces: it focuses on the act of contemplation itself, showing only people who are seeing something we cannot. We never know whether their attention is outward toward the sea or inward toward memory and feeling.

This work series stages different types of gaze and insists on a paradox: what you look at is not always what you see.