For a truly fresh outlook on Tokyo, run, don't walk, to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography to see Sohei Nishino's exciting photo-collages of Tokyo and nine other cities, on display through Jan. 29 along with works by other up-and-coming Japanese photographers.
The exhibition is the 10th in an ongoing series on contemporary photography and features five artists who have returned to early photography techniques — including collage, pinhole cameras and multiple exposures — inviting us to rethink how we look at photographs, according to curator Harumi Niwa.
Nishino, who at 29 is the youngest of the artists represented, began working with collages while still a university student. He creates what he calls "diorama maps" — highly personal recreations of cities as he himself experienced them. Walking a city for as much as a month, he shoots hundreds of rolls of black-and-white film with a 35 mm camera, taking photographs from all sorts of vantages.
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