Hiroshi Sugimoto
Made conceptually rigorous long-exposure photographs of seascapes, theatres and dioramas that meditate on time itself.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory.
He exposes a single seascape for hours until the image becomes almost nothing — a horizon, a haze — and somehow that emptiness feels like staring into deep time.
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Made conceptually rigorous long-exposure photographs of seascapes, theatres and dioramas that meditate on time itself.
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