Moriyama wrote about the end of an era in photography, using the setting sun as a metaphor for the death of traditional film.

Sugimoto aims to capture the sun as an ancient human would have seen it.

Intentionally capturing sunbursts to represent "divine light."

While Sugimoto is known for his long exposures of seascapes, his writings in Until I am a Ghost provide a clinical yet poetic look at light.

Kawauchi’s work is the antithesis of Moriyama’s grit. In her books like Illuminance , she writes about the "shimmering" quality of daily life.

To Sugimoto, the sun setting into the sea is a "time machine" that connects the viewer to the origins of consciousness. Rinko Kawauchi: The Quiet Glow