“My children lived in St. Malo for a very long time, my son had a small apartment directly on the beach above a restaurant, obviously I was often at the window to see the sea, when I was there, one day a huge storm arrived, broke all the windows of the restaurant and everything in the dining room flew towards the sea, the restaurant was emptied in a few minutes, fortunately before this storm I took a photo of this lady who looked at the sea. The rest of the restaurant was destroyed a few days later.”
~ Dolores Marat
There’s something hauntingly poetic about this image. Dolores captured not just a woman, but a moment suspended before chaos — the stillness before a storm would erase everything in its path. Knowing the restaurant was later destroyed makes this photograph all the more precious. It’s a quiet meditation on impermanence, and the artists role to interpret and preserve what we can’t hold onto in life.
