Akira Sato (Photos Taken By Me)

Daido Moriyama – Poster: Koriyama City 1989 (Photos Taken By Me)

Miyako Isiuchi – Yokosuka Story 1976-1977 (Photos Taken By Me)

Osamu Shiihara (Photos Taken By Me)

Osamu Shiihara (Photos Taken By Me)

Asano Kiichi – at the restaurant Ikenoroyo in Maruyama Park, March 1938 (Photos Taken By Me)

Asano Kiichi – Rainy day in Gion Quarter, Kyoto Japan 1950’s (Photos Taken By Me)

Shomei Tomtatsu – Subway Tokyo 1969 (Photos Taken By Me)

I decided to go to this exhibition to look at the Japanese culture and their photographers. It was a beautiful exhibition featuring work from the famous photographers Shomei Tomatsu and Miyako Isiuchi. When I was there they also had a lot of different Japanese photographers books which gave me more of an insight into a variety of different styles of photography. I like how they have a brilliant understanding of lighting and portray this in their work.

The work by Osamu Shiihara inspired me to try using double exposure in my own work. I also really like how he has distorted his photos by using the double exposure technique, looking at his work it reminds me of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photos.