omohide Ikeya is a photographer who seeks the origins of life through images of water. On this occasion he presents human figures being violently overcome by waves. Ikeya amplifies the tumult of his images through stripped-down compositions. “Perhaps the essence of life, granted to everyone, is to live while struggling against death…Life is not just about visible beauty, but also about true strength, which we have from birth,” Ikeya has said.