Shapes of water #17 (2026) Photograph by Karim Carella

Water has always fascinated me — the way it refuses to hold still, the way light breaks and bends across its surface into something no camera setting can fully predict. With this piece, I wanted to capture that unrepeatable instant: color dissolving into liquid, form dissolving into color.

The composition rests on a single horizontal line: a soft band of white foam cutting across the frame, dividing a hazy, pale sky above from a warmer, streaked expanse of water below.
That streaking — long vertical traces of taupe and blush-beige — comes from the motion itself, giving the lower half an almost textile, brushed quality, while the upper half stays quiet and diffused, grey fading into a faint blue.
It's a restrained palette overall: greys, soft blues, and warm neutrals, with the white foam as the only real point of contrast and energy in the frame.

I shot Shapes of Water #17 by working directly with reflections and refractions in motion, letting the water itself compose the image rather than imposing a fixed subject on it. Each ripple became a brushstroke, each shift in light a new palette.
The result sits somewhere between photography and abstract painting — fluid, unrepeatable, alive.
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SHAPES OF WATER #17

✔️ Limited edition of 15;
✔️ Giclée fine art print on Innova Exhibition Matte Polycotton Canvas 380gsm (with margin of 5 cm);
✔️ Hand signed on the back;
✔️ Certificate of authenticity, signed and numbered;
✔️ Hahnemühle matt protective varnish for canvas inkjet prints applied.

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Materials used:

Giclée fine art print on Innova Exhibition Matte Polycotton Canvas 380gsm

Details:

• Photograph on Canvas
• From a limited edition of 15
• Size: 100 x 70 x 0.2cm (unframed) / 90 x 60cm (actual image size)
• Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
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