PAUL ROUSTEAU - SEASCAPE

French artist Paul Rousteau is known for his alchemic light and color-bending approach to photography. Seascapes is a series made by Rousteau while artist-in-residence on a boat o ff the Coral Sea, in Australia. Inspired by the unending horizons around him, Rousteau retreated to the darkroom to invent mental topographies of his own, reducing the landscape down to the barest constituent elements – water, air and light. Often saturated, interrupted or out of focus, his photographs are series of playful experiments navigating between figuration and abstraction, painting and digital art.

These constructed landscapes invite us to consider the point where human imagination interacts with the landscape - how fantasies of distance, displacement and faraway places are projected onto the horizon. Existing somewhere between vision, imagination and a surreal, submerged reality, Rousteau extends this fiction through globetrotting captions and an innovative design that invites readers to rip away and reappropriate the seascapes as their own.

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French artist Paul Rousteau is known for his alchemical approach to light and color in photography. Seascapes is a series Rousteau made while he was an artist-in-residence on a boat off the Coral Sea in Australia. Inspired by the endless horizons around him, Rousteau retreated to the darkroom to invent his own mental topographies, reducing the landscape to its barest constituent elements—water, air, and light. Often saturated, interrupted, or blurred, his photographs are playful series of experiments that navigate between figuration and abstraction, painting and digital art.

These constructed landscapes invite us to consider the point at which human imagination interacts with landscape—how fantasies of distance, displacement, and distant places are projected onto the horizon. Between vision, imagination, and surreal, submerged reality, Rousteau extends this fiction through globetrotting captions and innovative design that invites the reader to tear themselves away and reclaim the seascapes.