Thursday, October 23, 2008

Naoki Honjo - Japanese Contemporary Photographer

When I visited Japan earlier, I found an interesting photo book called "Small Planet, Naoki Honjo". This Japanese photographer spend a lot of time & effort to take the "model like" pictures. He is the Master of the "model like" photography.

After reading this book, I follow his idea and take the "model like" pictures : )

Attached are his photographs samples and his information:









Naoki Honjo

Honjo photographs containers, urban environments, express highways, sporting events, and countryside. They are mostly populated with people. The photos are as shot from towers, skyscrapers, or helicopters using a tilt shift lens, which makes the environments appear to be model like. They are not altered through computer manipulation. Honjo aims to express a "sense of falseness" about the environments we live in. This gives the viewer the strange sense of looking at an image that is between fiction and reality.

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