One of the world's leading artists, Hiroshi Sugimoto has won international acclaim for his photographs that explore profound themes of space, nature, time and culture, distilling these complexities into a single arresting image. Of the series he has pursued during his career such as Dioramas, Theatres and Seascapes, it is the latter that exemplifies the sheer beauty that is characteristic of his oeuvre. Black Sea Ozuluce, 1991; North Pacific Ocean Iwate, 1986; and Ionian Sea Santa Cesarea, 1993 are brilliant examples of Sugimoto's seascapes that were born of his desire to view a scene as primitive man might have. He was drawn to the sea, because unlike the changing topography of land, the sea, he thought, was immutable. These magnificent photographs of different seas display what has been described as an almost sacred geometry. In 2006, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo collaborated on a major retrospective of the artist. His work has also been exhibited and is part of the permanent collections of other major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA.