The Logbook – A Space for Stories, Moments, and Observations

The Logbook has become a space for thought and observation—a place where words take the helm. What began as a journal of visual notes and maritime stories has grown into a more reflective territory, where philosophy, ethics, and perception converge.

Here, I let my thoughts drift across themes that shape my work and my way of seeing: the sea, time, craft, attention, and the fragile balance between humanity and nature. Some entries remain close to the shore—anchored in the tangible world of boats, harbours, and water—while others venture into quieter, more abstract reflections.

It is a place to pause, to think, and to write freely. A companion to my visual work, yet with its own current.

ILCA 4 SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP
Jan Latussek . Jan Latussek .

ILCA 4 SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP

Over four days of regatta coverage, I worked solo to produce daily recap videos alongside real-time social media content. The challenge wasn’t only the pace of the races, but the need to operate across multiple layers of storytelling at once — immediate vertical content, structured daily edits, and the foundation for a final recap film.

Working handheld with Sony A7III and GoPro, and adapting to changing conditions — including the loss of stabilization mid-event — the project became an exercise in responsiveness, endurance, and trust in experience.

What remained constant was the need to stay close to the rhythm of the water, anticipate moments, and translate them into something both immediate and lasting.

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On Silence
Jan Latussek . Jan Latussek .

On Silence

A meditation on silence in the age of constant information, and how sailing and surfing reconnect us to rhythm, presence, and the natural world.

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The Image Before the Image.
Jan Latussek . Jan Latussek .

The Image Before the Image.

A Logbook reflection on anticipation, place, and photographic intent. An image imagined long before it was taken, shaped by patience, knowledge of the landscape, and the precise alignment of light, wind, and waves. A meditation on how thought becomes image.

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El lugar al que se vuelve / The Place We Return To
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El lugar al que se vuelve / The Place We Return To

It was more a clear sense of alignment. As if pieces that had long been scattered were beginning to fall naturally into place. The decision I was making—reorienting my work, bringing together my years of experience in audiovisual production, advertising, and cinema with my origin, with boats, and with that ancient relationship to the sea—found there a silent confirmation.

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Dando presencia a las ausencias/ On Giving Presence to the Absences
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Dando presencia a las ausencias/ On Giving Presence to the Absences

The museum’s request was simple: to translate this fragile album — too delicate to be displayed — into a small digital slideshow for a corner of the permanent exhibition. A gesture of preservation. A way of keeping the object visible without exposing it to further harm.

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Craft vs. Capture: Is Photography Still an Art?
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Craft vs. Capture: Is Photography Still an Art?

We live in a time of content images—images made for algorithms, for reach, for speed. They’re designed to disappear. To perform well, then vanish. And they do. That’s their purpose. But that’s not photography. Not in the deeper sense.

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Ribbon Surgery
Jan Latussek . Jan Latussek .

Ribbon Surgery

There is something strangely intimate about opening a machine that has witnessed so much of your life. Screw by screw, layer by layer, until the fault revealed itself

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Slowpoke,
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Slowpoke,

There’s a line in Neil Young’s Slowpoke that I keep returning to, one that seems to shift shape each time I hear it:
“When I was faster, I was always behind.”

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Somewhere Along the Way
Jan Latussek . Jan Latussek .

Somewhere Along the Way

Everywhere you turn, someone is selling visibility — courses, shortcuts, formulas for relevance. The promise is always the same: be seen, stay seen, never disappear.

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The Image Flood: When Everything Is Photographed, Nothing Is Seen
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The Image Flood: When Everything Is Photographed, Nothing Is Seen

The human brain isn’t wired for such an infinite feed of visual inputs. It’s wired for attention. For focus. For meaning.

But digital platforms—especially social media—reward volume over vision, speed over substance.
Content flows endlessly, numbing our receptors and conditioning our eyes to scroll rather than to see.

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Against the Infinite Scroll: After Sontag
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Against the Infinite Scroll: After Sontag

We live with a lens where our eyes should be. The more we capture, the less we keep. After Sontag, this essay argues that image abundance has turned attention into mulch—and suggests small, stubborn practices for restoring the art of looking so a single photograph can matter again.

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Notes on the Intuitive Photographic Act
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Notes on the Intuitive Photographic Act

We think of seeing as what the eye does, but it’s closer to what the whole being feels. Each image emerges from that convergence — from the conversation between intuition and matter, between air and water, between the inner tremor and the outer world.

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Mobilis in Mobili …. 155 years with Captain Nemo
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Mobilis in Mobili …. 155 years with Captain Nemo

Captain Nemo wasn’t a childhood reading. He was a fissure. A signal.
At a time in my life when I still believed adventures were external territories —sea monsters, uncharted horizons, technology waiting to be conquered— he appeared.
Solitary. Lucid. Faithful to his own compass.
Not a hero. Not a villain. Something more unsettling: someone who had chosen to live by his own principles, even if it cost him the world.

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Sailing Wildflower
Jan Latussek . Jan Latussek .

Sailing Wildflower

Sailing Wildflower, our 420 Nordet, offers a timeless family experience, teaching the joy of sailing and embracing life's slower, more peaceful pace.

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