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Shinya Arimoto
有元伸也
Facts
- Life
- born 1971
- Nationality
- Japanese
Style, as we read it
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Tokyo Circulation (2016) and the ariphoto zines: square black-and-white portraits of the people who pass through Shinjuku, met head on with a 6×6 camera, printed deep and sharp, with the same attention given to a crow or a cat.
- Colour
- Black and white, dense.
- Composition
- Square, close, frontal, the subject filling the frame.
- Light
- Hard street light, strong sun and shade.
- Tone
- Deep blacks, bright skin, high contrast.
- Texture
- Sharp, rich medium-format grain.
- Mood
- Direct, animal, respectful.
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