Like any art fair, Tokyo Photo has a real mix. Many of the big international names are being shown - Eggleston, Friedlander,
Cartier-Bresson, Chris Bucklow - but what interests me are things that seem uniquely Japanese in an original way. And you have to hunt for those. Nevertheless, here are a few things that caught my eye. Above "Form #1" by Miwa Nishimura. Click on the image to see the wigs that have been digitally added to each seagull.
Below: From Sohei Nishino's ongoing series of dioramas done in cities all over the world. It's a painstaking process where he spends weeks photographing the city from many hundreds of different vantage points. Then back in the studio he begins to assemble the individual frames from the contact strips into a collage that takes several months to create. The collage is then photographed and editioned into three sizes.
London Diorama by Sohei Nishino.
Detail from the above diorama.
Two prints from Haruko Nakamura's 19 print series "The Gift from the Sea".
What's selling is sex. Misato Kuroda's series "Sawako".
And last but not least - an early Chicago picture by the master photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto.
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