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Created:2020

It was a visual experiment with a rose which Inspired by the Japanese photographer  Nobuyoshi  Araki. He has finished a lot of photographic artworks with flowers around different themes of sex, love, living, and death.

He empowered unique visual effects for each flower under his lens，made efforts to normalize these visual shocks，and provoked the audience to reflect on the inner sentiment behind these glowing colors.

I decided to photographed a rose with different angels and focal lengths in order to express the theme of love. I picked this photo as a part of the collection at the end.

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Created:2020

I found this flower lying next to the trash can, half of it had wilted while the other half was still brightly colored. The fact that it was discarded without blooming added a sense of sadness to the picture.

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Exhibition Name:  Kayu·Nobuyoshi Araki

Artist Name:  Nobuyoshi Araki
Date: 2020.4.25-2020.7.26
Location: Xie Zilong photography Museum, Changsha，China

PS：This link may not be accessed smoothly, So I put some screenshots about the VR exhibition‘s contents below.

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Nobuyoshi Araki is a contemporary Japanese photographer known both for his prolific output and his erotic imagery. While sometimes focusing on quotidian subject matter, including flowers or street scenes, it is Araki's sexual imagery that has elicited controversy and fascination.

Hisako Motoo is one of the most iconic independent curators and editors working within and outside of Japan, Hisako Motoo has been collaborating with numerous internationally acclaimed Japanese photographers as well as proactively promoting the works of overseas artists. Among her celebrated curatorial projects, she ensures that each project is endowed with an exciting, innovative and inspired new concept, constantly pushing the boundaries for creative discourse and artistic dialogue.

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Nobuyoshi Araki is a contemporary Japanese photographer known both for his prolific output and his erotic imagery. While sometimes focusing on quotidian subject matter, including flowers or street scenes, it is Araki's sexual imagery that has elicited controversy and fascination.

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Created:2020

This photo came from a lighting exercise I did.

When I moved the light source, I was impressed by the different poses of shadows on the wall.

The shadow in the above photo is like the side of a lady's face, quiet, shy, elegantly thinking and gazing.

This made me realize how important the use of light is in photography. It is not only reflected in the visual effect, but also adds to the power of emotional expression and transmission.

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Created:2019

A hiking experience led me to photograph the trees in this scene. On either side of the picture are trees that are taller than the middle trees.

Standing higher than the middle tree, it was as if I was looking at the woods on the same level as the taller trees.

The dense woods were enough for me to leave the hustle and bustle of the city behind for a while, to blend in and feel the peace.

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Created:2021

This is a photo taken during the climbing process. Unlike Tree 1，behind this photo, I was standing on a hill above many buildings，observing the area of human life further out of sight through the trees in front of me.

It is as if I am making an emotional connection with nature to examine human life and boundaries.

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Created:2020

Inspired by the British photographer Michael Kenna，Who has the ability to reduce the most complicated to the minimal, and is good at applying abstract lines and graphics to black and white contrast. Many of his works possess an oriental Zen charm，such as Temple Tree, Bamboo Leaves and Garden Wall, Tangyue Arches

I tried to photograph the simple combination of tree and sky, as they are always complement each other.

Through looking up at the scene, i observed nature with an humble posture.

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Created:2021

This is a another photograph with the combination of tree and the sky.

It was interesting to find a tree that wasn't so dense in the summer, making the picture look empty and silent.

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Created:2019

Watching the sea is a favoured outdoor activity for me and my friends. This photo was taken on the day I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in a long time. We were sharing our lives on the beach and the atmosphere was quite relaxed and enjoyable.

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Created:2019

On the day I took this photograph, I went to the coast alone. It was already late in the evening and the sun was setting in front of me, so I began to observe the sun's light reflected on the sea.

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Created:2021
Listening to the sound of the sea, it feels like you've come a long way to an old friend's house, he gives you a comfortable sofa, turns on the record player and plays your favourite piano sonata, then asks you how you're doing. You don't have to be afraid of embarrassment even if you don't want to talk, just listen to the sound of his waves taking away all your distractions over and over again.

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Created:2021

Walking along the seafront walkway, observing the people walking, are people in different moods to be close to the sea?

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Created:2021

Standing by the sea on a cloudy rainy day, an egret flies in from the distant rainy sky, lingering, skimming over as if a light had cut through the chaos.

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Created:2020

Standing in a quiet town in Sichuan that is surrounded by mountains, I looked at the river in front of me, which had become more turbulent due to the rain, and began to think about where the river will flow to, and whether the river in front of me looks more or less the same as it did in the past.

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Created:2021

Nature has always had a healing effect on me. When I took this photo, it was the day before I was to say goodbye to a good friend who was leaving to study in Japan. We went to the park together and sat on the bank of the river, chatting and enjoying the natural scenery and looking forward to the future. The calmness of the river also eased the feelings of reluctance between us.

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Created:2020

I observed and photographed this tree through the balcony of the cafe one afternoon.

The tree is well integrated with the surrounding vintage buildings, making me realize that nature is all around us and it quietly blossoms into its charm. Enjoying nature is just a matter of looking out of the window from time to time

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Created:2020

This photo is my initial black-and-white photography’s practice and have inspired me to discover deeper.

Standing on the river bank, looking towards the clouds and sunset in the sky, the wire symbols belonging to the human area with the woods below make up the important elements of the picture.

Minus the color distractions of the sunset, sky, and trees, I focused more on the perception and testing of grayscale, and the exploration of the inner meaning of the photograph.

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Created:2021

Since childhood, the sea has always had wonderful magic for me, looking at the sea fluctuating with the wind, feeling the sea breeze caressing my face, listening to the beautiful music of the waves lapping. It seems that the sea can accommodate everything, I can stay at the beach all day, no matter how emotional will be healed by it.

After viewing the series of Seascape from Hiroshi Sugimoto，I was resonated by the philosophical meaning behind them.

His defocus and time-lapse photography seems to be a kind of storage scale for space and time, which also inspires me to explore how to balance photographic techniques and the subjects expressed.

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Created: 2020

Photography as the art of drawing light has always led me to explore the fascination of light. In this photograph, the dazzling sunlight spilling over the river reveals golden dots of stars that complement the ripples of the water.

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Created: 2019

If you look closely, you will see many similarities between several photographs in the collection about the mountain. Through the window of my room, I have a view of this mountain range. I would always like to sit in front of the window from time to time and observe the state of this mountain in different weather. Then I explore the different framing ranges through the camera, trying to understand the subtleties of the diverse combinations of details.

In this photograph, a balance seems to be achieved among the mountains in the forefront, the mountains in the middle and the thick clouds behind them, and finally the sky arranged layer by layer.

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Created: 2018

This image of the mountain, taken from almost the same angle as the previous one, is more harmonious and serene because the absence of clouds and sunlight reduces the number of elements in the photograph.

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Created: 2020

In the evening, as the sky darkens and the clouds gather, heavy rain was about to fall.

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Created: 2020

In this photograph, the mountains take up only a small part of the bottom, with more space given to the free-floating clouds in the sky.

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Created: 2020

The grass, the pool, the trees and the mountains form an important part of the photograph, from near to far.

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Created: 2020

Looking through the car window at the mountains ahead on a rainy day.

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While Hiroshi Sugimoto (a Japanese photographer and architect) living in New York City in 1980, he began to wonder if present-day people see everything the same as prehistoric humans.

With this in mind, the first subjects he thought of photographing were Mount Fuji and Nachi Falls in Japan, and as he climbed to the top of Mount Fuji in preparation for the shoot, he discovered that the mountains and rivers had actually changed dramatically over millions of years.

And the only thing that hadn't changed was the sea. So with the ancient sea as his target, he began his most famous masterpiece, the Seascape series.

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Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention―and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The beginnings of life are shrouded in myth: Let there water and air. Living phenomena spontaneously generated from water and air in the presence of light, though that could just as easily suggest random coincidence as a Deity. Let's just say that t here happened to be a planet with water and air in our solar system, and moreover at precisely the right distance from the sun for the temperatures required to coax forth life. While hardly inconceivable that at least one such planet should exist in the vast reaches of universe, we search in vain for another similar example. Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

- Hiroshi Sugimoto

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Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention―and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The beginnings of life are shrouded in myth: Let there water and air. Living phenomena spontaneously generated from water and air in the presence of light, though that could just as easily suggest random coincidence as a Deity.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto Interview: Between Sea and Sky

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When photographing seascapes, Sugimoto set the focus at infinity and then used the long exposure technique. In this regard, he explains, "The human eye, without a shutter mechanism, must only be able to adapt to long exposures. From the moment we are born to the moment we close our eyes in bed at the end of our lives, the human eye is exposed only once."

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Hiroshi Sugimoto Interview: Between Sea and Sky

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The composition of these works is extremely brief, with only the sea, the sky, and separate lines. Only black and white and gray, and the texture of gelatin silver halide on the photo paper.

However, each photo is not tedious and repetitive but contains a thousand changing potentials and a Zen perspective of the East amid tranquility.