Hiroshi Sugimoto's Personality Review

Hiroshi Sugimoto once said: "Memory is an incredible thing: you won't remember what happened yesterday, but you can clearly recall your childhood moments. These moments fade away in memory, perhaps because these experiences are the first time, which makes the impression more vivid. However, the experience that lasts until adulthood is a repetition of the past, so it gradually becomes insignificant. Think carefully about your earliest memories, and along the way from childhood, you will find that memories are always piled up like mountains and layers. "

Time, memory, dreams and history are the themes of Hiroshi Sugimoto's photography. He often adds his own ideas to his photography.

From seascape, theater, architecture, portrait to mathematical form, Hiroshi Sugimoto has formed his own unique photography style. His works are calm, dull and lifeless, giving people a cold feeling, but making countless people stop in front of his works.

The sea is no longer a sea, and architecture is not a building. His photography is more like an exploration.

"I filmed things in history. In the "Seascape" series, the objects I want to deal with are water and atmosphere. These two things can be said to have changed people the least so far. Everything else in the world changes with time. My artistic theme is time. "

When shooting a drama series, Hiroshi Sugimoto went to one abandoned cinema after another, set up a camera to aim at the screen, and then showed the movie. At the end of the film, the film story became blank because of the long exposure of the film, but the corner details in the dark cinema were carved by time because of the long exposure.

We may not be able to understand what the photographer is thinking, but through Hiroshi Sugimoto's works, we can certainly make ourselves think about the world. Isn't this the purpose of regular photography?

"Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of the most respected photographers of our time. His important photographic subjects are all interpretations of art, history, science and religion. He perfectly combines eastern philosophy with the theme of western culture. "

-Comments on Hiroshi Sugimoto, winner of 200 1 by the famous Hasbrandt Photography Award.