Book of Khidr

Jean Dieuzaide (French photographer 1921 - 2003), Nazare, Portugal, 1954

Frederick Judd Waugh (American artist, 1861–1940), Moonlight on the Sea. Oil on canvas.

Frederick Judd Waugh (American artist, 1861–1940), Ebbing waters. Oil on canvas.

René Burri (Swiss photographer, born in Zurich, 1933 – 2014), Amalfi, Italy, 1966

Vincent van Gogh, from The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Claude Monet (French painter, founder of French Impressionist painting, practitioner of the movement's plein air landscape painting, 1840-1926), Sea Study, 1881. Oil on canvas.

Abbas Attar, Sunset on the beach, Cape Town, South Africa, 1999

Hiroshi Hamaya, Oiso beach, Japan, 1953

Ferdinando Scianna (Italian photographer, writer, author, and a member of Magnum Photos), Octopus on a boat, Sant’Elia, Sicily, 1976. Photograph courtesy the artist and Magnum Photos.

Pentti Sammallahti, The Atlantic, Portugal 2010

Bruno Barbey (French photographer, born in Morocco in 1941, he grew up in various parts of the country: Rabat, Tanger, Salé, Marrakech which influenced his photography, has dual nationality – French and Swiss – and is a Magnum Photos member), Sailboats in the water, Djerba Island, Tunisia, 1990. Picture courtesy the artist and Magnum Photos.

Bruno Barbey (French photographer, born in Morocco in 1941, he grew up in various parts of the country: Rabat, Tanger, Salé, Marrakech which influenced his photography, has dual nationality – French and Swiss – and is a Magnum Photos member), Sri Lanka, 2004. Picture courtesy the artist and Magnum Photos.

Lorenzo Meloni, Yemen, 2010

Luigi Ghirri (Italian photographer and artist, 1943-1992), Bastia, Corsica, 1976

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Thomas Hoepker, A bather at sunset in the ocean, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1983

Édouard Boubat (French art photographer and photojournalist 1923–1999), Rémi listening to the sea, France, 1955