Seen: 濡れた地面はやがて水たまりに変わる / An Eventual Saturation
Who: 村越としや Toshiya Murakoshi
Where: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Roppongi, Tokyo
When: October 6 - November 10, 2018
Murakoshi’s latest show at Taka Ishii Gallery is a collection of meticulously shot and printed photographs of Fukushima prefecture. Upon first impression I was sure that they were made with either 4x5 or even 8x10 camera- the photographer told me that he shot everything with a Mamiya RZ67 camera on Kodak T-max 100 film. The digital sample snaps above do not do the work justice- the amount of detail and tonal quality inherent to his methods grant the work a visual and emotional quality that can only be appreciated best through experiencing the prints in person.