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7 Japanese Photographers You Need to Know
I have gained some new insights into man through having looked deeply at nature.
Hiroshi Hamaya
As someone from Western civilization, I find Japanese photography extremely intriguing. Japan has been known for having a rich culture, and photography by Japanese people is no exception. Nowadays there are a lot of very well-known Japanese photographers, such as Hiroshi Sugimoto or Rinko Kawauchi.
She is a photographer with an easy-to-identify style. Her work is filled with serenity and poetry around ordinary moments. She started working in the advertising industry, and continued there for quite a while before deciding it was enough. Since then she has pursued a career as a fine art photographer. She mostly uses the generous 6X6 format, and human presence is almost nonexistent in her images. Viewing her work, I can’t stop recalling the poetry of William Carlos Williams.
You can indulge yourself with her work here. And you can find a more casual vision of her work in her diary.
Araki is a creative monster who has released 450 photobooks and still doesn’t miss a day without taking photographs, as you will learn in this interview from the great guys over at Vice. He was born in Tokyo and studied photography from 1959 to 1963. In 1963, he started working at an advertising agency called Dentsu. Arākī (his nickname) is considered to be one of the…
