Hiroshi Sugimoto works with a large-format camera in order to achieve the highest level of detail. He has consistently chosen to work with black-and-white film, finding that it offers a larger range of tonal values than color film. In 1976 Sugimoto started photographing with very long exposures cinema screens while movies were being projected on them. The continuous movement of images blurs them together, to the point of becoming a solid frame of light. In 1980 Sugimoto started photographing Seascapes. For several years he travelled around the world photographing the sea, always following the same set of rules. In each photo the horizon divides sky and ocean in equal proportion.