Weston's photographs share Gursky's commitment to precise, contemplative landscape imagery where solitary subjects exist in quiet harmony with their natural surroundings. His large format photographic work elevates everyday scenes into meditations on stillness and the relationship between humans and water.

Sugimoto consistently explores themes of solitude, time, and contemplation through large scale chromogenic prints featuring water and landscape, creating a philosophical stillness that closely mirrors the quiet introspective mood of this Gursky work. His seascape series in particular shares the same sense of a solitary figure absorbed into a vast natural environment.

Hütte is a fellow Düsseldorf School photographer who creates large format landscape photographs featuring figures in quiet, contemplative relationships with water and natural settings in Europe. His work shares Gursky's cool tonal precision and interest in how isolated human presence transforms an otherwise serene landscape into something emotionally resonant.