Hiroshi Sugimoto

 Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect , born in 1948 in Tokyo, Japan, and spends his time between New York City and Tokyo. Sugimoto started his craft in the 70s and sense made a huge name for himself within the industry and beyond. 

Sugimoto describes his work as an expression of "time exposed". I think he says this because photography captures a moment in time, and once it is gone, all that remains is that image. All that we see left behind is a trace of time that we once had. To me, this is a great way to view the medium of photography. We capture the moments that we tend to forget or would like to be reminded of. We capture moments that provoked emotion and response yet induces memories of a moment that was forgotten and has now been brought into the forefront of our mind. Specifically for Sugimoto, many of his famous works has to do with exposure and having the camera sitting for a while to capture every detail within the time it is set up for. Images that encapsulates this is his Theatre series. In this series, Sugimoto had an idea about shooting an entire film in one shot. To do this at the beginning of the movie, he set his shutter and had his aperture wide open. At the end of the movie, he closed the aperture and what was produced was the image below. The details in the room is beautiful and the fact that the screen is white shows us that not one scene from the movie was captured but the entire movie itself and what was produced was a white screen. 


Sugimoto goes on to experiment and challenge his thoughts. Another series that he created was Lighting Fields. This series allows us to look at lighting stright on and have our own emotion towards it. When making this series, Sugimoto wanted to recreate old discoveries within the science field. Lighting is strong, fast, and has many properties that was later found as time went on. 

Sugimoto, in my opinion, does a great job in making something so simple into a work of art. The meaning behind his works allows you to see the complexity in what we thought was simple. It allows you to put on a different pair of lens and expand your view on what is. 


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