ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photo was taken in the summer of 2025 on the French Atlantic coast, in southern Brittany. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary holiday beach photo, but an invisible threat emerges from the fog: rising sea levels. Behind the dunes, the first residents were asked by the French government to leave their homes, as the Atlantic Ocean is expected to destroy them in a few years. These residents are considered the first ‘climate victims’ on France's coast. The atmosphere that day was mystical, the sun was shining and casting shadows on the beach, while at the same time the sea disappeared into the fog. The wooden posts are an expression of a battle against the sea that humans cannot win. I had the feeling that the rocks on the beach had faces with a sorrowful expression, looking at me, their mouths open, waiting for the inevitable.

AUTHOR
Lennard Grohn is a German photographic artist based in Frankfurt am Main.

He studied photography at the University of Fine Arts in Mainz, where his approach to light, drawing and composition was shaped. Working primarily in black and white, he develops long-term series that explore memory, intimacy and quiet transformation through a reduced, minimalist visual language.

His work moves between presence and absence, silence and emotional intensity, ranging from intimate portraits to poetic landscapes.
Alongside photography, he has a background in music as a drummer and percussionist, which informs his sense of rhythm and restraint.

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