Description:
Ouidah, Benin. Lake Toho. A fisherman standing in balance in his slender pirogue paddles across the vast grey surface of Lake Toho, beneath a sky dominated by a towering white cumulus cloud with sharp edges. The low horizon underlines the expanse of the lake, while a few water lily leaves float in the foreground. Wooded shores and distant structures are faintly visible in the background. The composition plays on the verticality of the cloud against the horizontality of the lake, placing the fisherman as the central figure of a landscape both majestic and intimate.