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. Lightning Fields 119, 2009 is a captivating work from his recent Electricity series in which he has moved his focus from sea to sky. To create these magnificent images, he employs a Van de Graaff generator to propel 400,000 volts through film to a metal table. Of these works, Sugimoto said, "I see the spark of life itself, the lightning that struck the primordial ooze."