Shapes of water #24 (2026)Photograph by Karim Carella

"Shapes of Water" is my new photographic series for 2026, previewed at the end of 2025 through the presentation of three works.
Rooted in a minimalist and abstract approach to landscape, this series reduces form to its emotional essence, transforming water into a space of suspension and quiet introspection.
A subtle duality runs through the project: the darker images emerge from emotional unrest, while the lighter works, despite their apparent serenity, conceal a deeper desire for disappearance. Light and darkness coexist as different states of the same inner landscape.

In SHAPES OF WATER #24, I captured the Gulf of Follonica at winter dawn, where a single luminous wave stretches across the entire horizontal frame like a fragile exhale frozen in time, its blurred contours commanding every inch of the composition with unyielding serenity.

I framed it this way deliberately—foreground swell rising in creamy whites and golds, bleeding into mid-tones of diffused azure and slate, then dissolving higher into a wavering, silken sea—creating layered bands that pull me endlessly inward, as if the sea itself were breathing my own quiet longing.

Through long exposure, I stripped the scene bare, flattening perspective until only these essential striations remain, each one a pulse of emotion etched into the water's skin, holding me captive between the urge to hold on and the ache to let go.
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SHAPES OF WATER #24
✔️ 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: 156 x 92 x 0.2cm (unframed) / 146 x 82cm (actual image size)
• Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
• Hurry, only 1 left in stock

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