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Ocean, by Philip Plisson, text by Christian Buchet, Thames & Hudson, €50.

Nearly 200 new and previously unpublished photographs are contained in this lavish collection from highly acclaimed French marine photographer Philip Plisson.

‘‘It’s the sea that I try to honour through my gaze,” Plisson observes in the introduction.

‘‘I hope that my illustrated emotions will take you on a voyage between the sea and the sky.”

And they certainly do: when you’re ...