Low Water.
Houses, terraces and pools along the Algarve coast, photographed at low tide, when the sea steps back and the water held in stone is all that stays still.
- Year
- 2025
- Place
- Algarve coast
- Photographs
- 9 of 18 shown
- Format
- Medium format film, pigment prints
Statement
Along the Algarve coast, houses are built to face the sea and then, almost always, to give you a smaller and calmer sea of your own: a pool, a basin, a channel of still water at the edge of a terrace.
I visited once a month for a year, always at the lowest tide, and always from the same few positions. Most of the pictures are of very little happening, very slowly: a horizon, a white wall, the line where a pool meets the sky.
The owners were rarely there. I have kept their houses unnamed and given the pictures only the hour and the month.
Mara Ilves
Sequence
9 photographs, in the order they hang.
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Editions
From this series, for your wall.
Table Studies
2025 · Lisbon & Porto · 32 photographs