Storm belongs to a series of landscapes devoid of human presence, photographed along the Baltic coast in the Kaliningrad region. The image captures a turbulent seascape under a luminous sky, where dense clouds and bands of violet light press down over a restless surface of breaking waves. The landscape is presented not as a setting for human experience, but as an autonomous environment shaped by shifting weather and the force of the sea.
The title refers to the intensity of the atmospheric condition that governs the image. Storm is understood here not as a dramatic backdrop, but as an active state in which sea and sky become inseparable parts of the same elemental field. Through a posthuman perspective, the work removes the human figure from the centre of the image and allows the environment to assert its own scale, rhythm and instability. The waves do not illustrate emotion, yet their movement produces a heightened sense of pressure and release.
Created using analogue photography, the image retains the softness and tonal instability characteristic of the medium. The movement of the water is slightly blurred, while the unusual violet and pink palette gives the scene a suspended, almost unreal atmosphere. As a result, the observed landscape becomes poised between documentation and projection, allowing the storm to appear both physically present and visually transformed.
