Category Archives: Japan

Joji Shimamoto

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“9#, Sk8 and Toy-kyo“) © Joji Shinamoto Street culture graces the portfolio of Japanese photographer, Joji Shimamoto, as he traverses between New York City and Tokyo. Born and raised in Japan, he has since relocated to the Big Apple as a freelance photographer. Recently featured in Japan’s Photographica magazine and studio voice, this [...]
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Takashi Homma

TOP TO MIDDLE, from (“Tokyo Suburbia“) © Takashi Homma, 1998 BOTTOM, from (“New Waves“) © Takashi Homma, 2003 Takashi Homma captures the dark ominous side of Tokyo in the late nineties in his series ‘Tokyo Suburbia’. Japan was at the cusp of an economic doldrum, where an asset bubble caused many subsequent years of recession. It was this darkness [...]
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Noriko Ishihara

Noriko Ishihara’s works explores the inner human condition. Within our cages lie a multitude of concerns and fears – things that frighten us. The series questions the individual’s inner being and represents them in a whole new light. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“?? (silent and loneliness) world“) © Noriko Ishihara, 2009 Highly abstruse, the images’ visual references and [...]
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Rinko Kawauchi – Condensation

TOP, untitled, 2009 © Rinko Kawauchi Rinko Kawauchi would be having an exhibition at Mountain Fold Gallery in New York for an entire month. The show, “Condensation”, is a collection of new and old works from the Japanese photographer. I’ve always been a fan of Kawauchi and would love to be there. An interesting aspect of the [...]
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Tsukasa Yokozawa

TOP TO BOTTOM, “Approach Lights #3“, “On White #1“, “On the Margin” © Tsukasa Yokozawa, 1999-2005 Tsukasa Yokozawa is a Japanese photographer living and working in New York. A selection of his works from various series are currently on exhibition at Motus Fort, a gallery in Tokyo. Yokozawa on his works: I place plural and independent things on [...]
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Lightning Fields“) © Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2009 It’s a small wonder why Sugimoto-san is considered one of the greatest living photographers. He constantly pushes the limits of what photography can achieve and creates works that just leave one in complete awe. Sugimoto-san approaches photography like a scientist, experimenting and testing out hypotheses. In his latest [...]
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Taisuke Koyama

Taisuke Koyama’s “organic abstract photography” has gained some recognition for its symbolism and portrayal of the changing city. TOP TO BOTTOM, Burnt, Split Fence, Pond from (“entropix) © Taisuke Koyama, 2008 At first glance, the images in his latest series, entropix, appear to be just bright images of shapes and colors, as if they were part of a [...]
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Shigeyoshi Ohi

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Dark Lake Series“) © Shigeyoshi Ohi, 2003 Shigeyoshi Ohi describes the experience of standing at the edges of these lakes as an agitating process. Beneath the serene surfaces lie one of mother nature’s greatest force of destruction. Volcano craters fill up rapidly with water when the volcanoes become dormant, resulting in awe-inspiring landscapes. [...]
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Chino Otsuka

Successful self-portraits that do not merely depict a pictorial representation of the artist are few and far apart. Chino Otsuka’s autobiographical series takes place in an abandoned flat in a Tokyo housing estate. The images evoke a sense of displacement, the diptychs further accentuate the emptiness between photographer and environment. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Tokyo 4-3-4-506 [...]
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Masakuni Murakami

Masakuni Murakami’s landschaft #5 turns landscapes taken in the air into something abstract. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“landschaft #5“) © Masakuni Murakami, 2007 Human perception is warped and we can’t really decipher what we see. Is it river or a road? It is reminiscent of his earlier work, avant-hier : hier : aujourd’hui : demain, of what seems [...]
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