Photo by Nadav Kander.
“I took this in Dungeness, on that part of the Channel that looks out to France. It was the end of June—the summer solstice—and I was driving back late at night. I stopped to walk along the beach and found this picture. It’s mysterious—and a good picture always asks more questions than it answers. I remember as a child going underwater in the sea with my goggles and looking towards the deep end—that sense of blackness and light running to darkness has always been very scary for me. This is a very busy, claustrophobic beach in the daytime, but when I found it, it was quiet and still. There was a harbor nearby, and the stray light from that is lighting the stones. The moon is just out of shot, and its light is swimming in the ocean. I like shooting at night—things feel expansive and clear. It’s a very long exposure—maybe 20 seconds—so the water is moving. It is time collapsed on to film rather than a decisive moment.” —Nadav Kander, as told to the Guardian in “From Coney Island to the Dead Sea: photographers choose their best summer shots.”
