TokisatoKamiya Photo Blog

            She was a former architect and by experience in Japan, she get the concept called "wabi-sabi". It is to find beauty in imperfection and transience, it is a concept even Japanese people like me have. About her works, what I understood is she dry flowers and take out water and make petals thin to show delicateness. The thing I thought is ink is actually color she take from flowers. I want to put delicateness in my works too.      In this photo, she does not use pigment ink, but the delicateness of the petals is very emphasized. By putting the flower in water, I felt the light is hitting the flower more evenly. I thought that by using strong light from the back, I want to emphasize the delicateness of petals and the beauty of the vein pattern of leaves.      Putting flower in water or drying them is simple things, but I think it is important to try and challenge. Also, I learned that interesting way of taking phot...

            He is a photographer based in Los Angeles, and he is known for celebrity portraits. When he was studying in ArtCenter College of Design, he was found by Andy Warhol, and it help him start his career through work for "Interview" magazine. Later, he became one of the best photographers of the 1980s and worked for many major magazine. Also, he is known as a music video director for artists such as Madonna and Beyonce. In recent years, he has expanded his work to fine art, and in 2025 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from ArtCenter College of Design.      After thinking about this photo in my own way, I came up with two possible methods. The first method is double exposure: taking one photo of a face facing forward with a white background, and a second photo of a side profile with a hand, and then combining them. The second method is to cut paper into the shapes of a hand and a side profile, place it between the camera a...