For more than forty years, Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) has photographed a simple composition. The centre of the frame aligns with the horizon to create a 50-50 division of sky and sea, or in Sugimoto’s words: “air and water”. The title for this series of works is Seascapes. His original concept behind the minimalist aesthetic was to share the same view with the early stages of mankind. To have a comparative view to our ancestors; he concluded that the image we can relate to looks out to the horizon. Elena Cué describes his work as: “a constant reflection about the origin and history of the world and of our culture, where concepts like space and time are explored expanding our ways of perception.” (Cué, 2016). The composition is synonymous with Sugimoto. But is it original? And can the same aesthetic be utilised for a different purpose?