More water than the eye could see

published by Bluff Books

april 2025

56 pages

15 x 20 cm

digital offset printing and risograph

singer sewn binding

1970 Lake Lanier map insert

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More water than the eye could see is a photographic project that blends documentary and sensitive exploration of the territory, conducted around Lake Lanier in the southern United States (Georgia). This artificial lake, created in 1957, bears all the characteristics of flooded valleys: uprooted inhabitants, ghost stories, and mysteries passed down through generations. It is a frustrating place because it contains all the answers, which seem to be within reach. Scanning the lake and walking along its shore, French-American photographer Tempé Storm Cole searches for clues to this painful history. Beneath the surface of the water, she tries to make out the remains of buried villages. The landscape resists, revealing little. The idyllic setting is ideal for vacationers, but its shiny red soil, rich in mica, gives the air a strange feel.
Designed as a pocket-sized visual guide to the shoreline, with a map to help visitors find their way around this vast territory, More water than the eye could see was presented at an exhibition at the Progress Gallery in Paris in April 2025.

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