Photographer Jonathan Knight has spent years refining a body of work called 'Exhale', a continuing series of eleven minimalist photographs that treat water and sky as portraits of atmosphere rather than records of place. The project came to wider attention this week when the art publication Colossal profiled it on 9 October, noting how Knight's images strip seascapes down to their essential elements and reward prolonged attention. Knight, who comes from a background in photojournalism and landscape architecture, photographs mainly along coastlines and lakes of the American West. His frames pair clear star-filled skies with fog-bound mornings and the moment rain spills from a heavy cloud, all rendered in a reductive, quiet visual language. Colossal describes the pictures as ethereal and minimalist, with few defining events and little of the flashiness that drives contemporary visual consumption. The series grew out of a deliberate decision to use technology against itself. Where photography now moves at the speed of computational cameras and artificial generation, Knight slows the process down, letting long exposures accumulate time inside a single frame. His own site frames the eleven works as studies of atmosphere, colour and texture, and as an exploration of the psychological space between land and sky. Knight has collected more than twenty international photography prizes, including Photographer of the Year in the Night category at the Minimalist Photography Awards, and his work sits in public and private collections. 'Exhale' is available through his studio at jonathanknight.net, where the full series can be viewed alongside his Waterfalls, Dunes and Human Nature collections.