Risaku Suzuki (1963)
Began exploring the medium of photography in the mid-1980s.
1990 first solo exhibition, and in 1998, he published his first photographic book, KUMANO (Korinsha Press), which looked at his native Kumano region of Japan.
Since then he has portrayed a wide range of subjects—sacred places in Japan, Mont Sainte Victoire in southern France, cherry blossoms, snow, and Cezanne’s studio—taking a different approach for each. These works he has shown in a succession of solo shows and books
This work was untitled but part of a photographic book titled Stream of Consciousness
I am reminded of the work of Rinko Kawauchi aesthetically and conceptually; the use of Fuji 400 film favours the beautiful, crispy, cyan tones and the subject matter is delicate and fragile in nature like Kawauchi's work.
Personally, I find his images unbelievably beautiful there is a sense of mystique, nostalgia and a kind of rare momentous magic. Nature is featured heavily and almost exclusively in Suzuki's Stream of Consciousness and it is captured and presented in a very fairy-take like manner. In the three images below we look into the picture frame from vastly different angles, but the suggestiveness is as strong throughout. The top image we look up through beautiful, snowy pink blossoms to an airy blue sky. The second image shows an untouched snowy path through the trees, void of the presence of any footsteps this image is full of potential! The third image peeks down through branches to water below, the focal point of the image movement in the water - what is below the surface I wonder?
These wonderfully crisp images tickle my imagination in all the best ways - I could become consumed by Suzuki's Stream of Consciousness.
This work was untitled but part of a photographic book titled Stream of Consciousness
I am reminded of the work of Rinko Kawauchi aesthetically and conceptually; the use of Fuji 400 film favours the beautiful, crispy, cyan tones and the subject matter is delicate and fragile in nature like Kawauchi's work.
Personally, I find his images unbelievably beautiful there is a sense of mystique, nostalgia and a kind of rare momentous magic. Nature is featured heavily and almost exclusively in Suzuki's Stream of Consciousness and it is captured and presented in a very fairy-take like manner. In the three images below we look into the picture frame from vastly different angles, but the suggestiveness is as strong throughout. The top image we look up through beautiful, snowy pink blossoms to an airy blue sky. The second image shows an untouched snowy path through the trees, void of the presence of any footsteps this image is full of potential! The third image peeks down through branches to water below, the focal point of the image movement in the water - what is below the surface I wonder?
These wonderfully crisp images tickle my imagination in all the best ways - I could become consumed by Suzuki's Stream of Consciousness.
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