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Shinya Takahashi
高桥伸哉
Facts
- Life
- born ?
- Nationality
- Japanese
Style, as we read it
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A Japanese photographer who calls his genre the scenic portrait: a person inside a whole scene, lit only by the sun. His book IN THE ZONE gathers ten years of street-scene portraits from seven countries.
- Colour
- Soft, unified palettes: warm pale orange and light brown, or cool pale blue, grey and green.
- Composition
- The scene first, the person inside it.
- Light
- Natural light only, often window light or a soft sun.
- Tone
- Low contrast, delicate tones.
- Texture
- Clean digital.
- Mood
- Calm, slightly distant, cinematic.
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