"I was doing an exhibition in Toronto, when I knew that Niagara Falls was not very far away, I asked the gentleman who had brought me to take me there, he refused for 4 days. The morning of the opening he tells me to take my coat and my Leica, and he takes me to the falls! When we arrived, he left me on a small mound while he went to park his car. The beauty, the sound of the water, and the joy of being there, I was really happy, that's where I took this photo, when he came back, I offered to take the walk on the boat, in front of my enthusiasm he accepted, as soon as I put my foot on the boat, I had a burst of laughter which I communicated to the other people on the boat, throughout the trip we continued to laughing without being able to stop. It was magical and beautiful. The walk lasts 15 minutes."
~ Dolores Marat
Dolores Marat’s photograph of the Niagara Falls ferry boat captures a moment of surreal beauty shrouded in mist and mystery. The boat, dwarfed by the elemental power of the falls, drifts like a ghost ship through the haze. Marat’s signature use of soft focus and rich color imbues the scene with a dreamlike, almost cinematic quality—transforming a tourist moment into a quiet meditation on human fragility amid natural grandeur.
