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Amy Friend: There Was Nothing Like That Night, 2020
In Amy Friend’s pictures, the ocean becomes a memory of times past, brought to life by the artist as delicately scattered, dancing points of light, radiant yet motionless. All photographs: Courtesy of Bildhalle
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Amy Friend: Tiny Tears Fill An Ocean, 2020
Friend gives her prints a weighty materiality by immersing them in sea water, then laying them out to dry for several weeks until the water has completely evaporated, leaving behind crystalline traces of salt.
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Martin Bogren: Ocean 07, India, 2006
Martin Bogren was born 1967 in Sweden and is now based in Malmo. He spent the early 90s photographing bands and artists, touring with the Cardigans for several years. He has been called “a master of the everyday”.
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Martin Bogren: Hollow 21, 2015
Bogren’s photographs can be poetic, cinematic, romantic and mysterious – sometimes all in one shot, as here.
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Martin Bogren: Ocean 08, 2006
Bogren’s black-and-white photographs show the ocean as a source of energy and life. The water feels palpable.
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Martin Bogren: Ocean 15, 2006
Last year Bogren published August Song, about the dances that happen in the woods and forests of Skane, Sweden. These dances, which can last a week and date from the 50s, are about drinking, dancing and celebrating life. The book’s style echoes his ocean shots here.
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Albarran Cabrera: The Mouth of Krishna #177, 2016
The artist duo Angel Albarran and Anna Cabrera have spent time in Japan, and their travels have strongly influenced their work as well as their printing techniques.
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Albarran Cabrera: The Mouth of Krishna #761, 2018
Influenced by occidental and oriental thinkers, their photographs examine time, place and identity.
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Albarran Cabrera: The Mouth of Krishna #868, 2019
The duo are interested in how an image can trigger different responses, depending on cultural background and experience.
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Albarran Cabrera, Kairos #4061, 2019
Albarran Cabrera’s distinctive printing techniques involve using cyanotypes on aluminium plates and pigments on Japan paper over gold leaf.
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Albarran Cabrera, The Mouth of Krishna #222, 2013
The duo’s ocean images mix relief work, colouring and texture.
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Thirza Schaap: Black Friday, 2018
Thirza Schaap collects plastic debris that has been shaped and polished by the ocean and finally washed ashore on the beaches of South Africa.
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Thirza Schaap: Shark Attack, 2017
Out of this she makes subtle sculptures, wresting beauty from the ugliness of pollution in modern, colourful works that are still disquieting. She calls the series Plastic Ocean.
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Thirza Schaap: Beehive, 2017
The purpose of Plastic Ocean is to raise awareness of pollution and to try to reduce the use of plastic. “Our beaches are covered in plastic confetti,” she says, “and there really is nothing to celebrate.”
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Thirza Schaap: Waterlilies Too, 2018
“As a child,” says Schaap, “I would walk over beaches and through fields and forests to collect beautiful shells, shimmering stones, feathers and funnily shaped branches. Much later, when spending more time on beaches all over the world, I found myself doing the same thing. Only to discover that I started filling my pockets with trash instead of treasure. Plastic from the ocean. Colourful and beautiful in its own tragic way.”
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Sandro Diener: Ionian Sea, Greece, 2019
In Sandro Diener’s photography, the topography feels both timeless and placeless. Cliff formations become a stage while clouds set a mountain in motion and land may suddenly appear in front of our eyes.
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Jeffrey Conley, Figure and Tide, 2001
Conley’s photographs vary from small, intimate and subtle to large, grand and dramatic, with luminous hand-coated platinum and palladium prints.
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Paul Cupido, An Island in the Moon I, 2019
Paul Cupido was born in 1972 on the Netherlands island of Terschelling. “On the island where I grew up,” he has said, “the sea is always near, a stone’s throw from home. Water all around. During my childhood many people made a living from the things that washed ashore.”
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Thomas Hoepker: Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, 1968
Magnum began to distribute Thomas Hoepker’s archive photographs in 1964, after which he became a full member of the organisation.
