The photos that were exhibited in Naked Tokyo 2008 are up on the nakedtokyo.com site. My photos can be found here. For the last little while I have been working on urban nightscapes.
My artist's statement:
The "Yoru no Sojourn" series examines solo nocturnal journeys through Tokyo's urban landscapes. At night, the ambient light can transform mundane, ordinary places into something strange and mysterious. Our sense of place is so strongly informed by our daytime impressions that when we pass through these places at night, we become strangers in a different world. The narrative of each photograph's obscured, shadowed figure is told by the ambient illumination. The images plays with the idea of whether it is the figure or the photographer who is on sojourn. The photos reveal glimpses of travels through the alleys, suburbs and mysterious places of Tokyo.
The work isn't titled in the site but the titles are
Linger
Retrograde
Passage
I almost sold the last image. A woman was going to buy it and came back with her husband but he wasn't a fan. Bummer but I'm really excited to generate enough interest to have someone come back to look at it..
The first one comes out dark on my screen compared to the print. I think some people have a darker screen than I do.
I'm still working on this series. It's hard to find the right images. Sometimes my night stuff is quite cheery which doesn't really seem to fit with what I have so far.