Bakscuro

2024 — Curonian Spit · 7 photographs

Tide

The Baltic in winter — long exposures of a sea that gives nothing away, shot along the Curonian Spit.

Long-exposure seascape with a flat horizon dividing water and sky

The Baltic does not perform. It is a low, grey, patient sea, and in winter it empties of everything except weather. These photographs were made over two winters on the Curonian Spit, mostly with exposures long enough to let the water forget itself.

What is left when the sea stops moving is the horizon — the straightest line in nature, and the hardest one to earn.

  1. Wooden groyne posts disappearing into smooth water
    02 Groynes, six seconds
  2. Dune grass bent by wind against pale sand
    03 Grass, force seven
  3. Dark wave breaking against a white winter sky
    04 The only wave that day
  4. Empty beach with a single line of footprints toward the water
    05 One set of footprints
  5. Fog over still water with a faint shoreline
    06 Fog bank, morning
  6. Ice fragments gathered at the waterline in low light
    07 First ice, December