Category Archives: Japan
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 [...]
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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Joji Shimamoto