Your photos are simple, clean and capture details often missed. Why do these details draw your eye?

My eyes cannot recognise everything. Photos are not captured by a human’s eye but by a camera. The camera mercilessly and precisely records the vision in front of me, even if my eyes cannot recognise it. I shoot vertically so that the whole area comes into focus as sharply as possible. This is because I am so aware that the photography is two-dimensional. In other words, I can say that the photography is to control the two-dimensionality by the focus position and diaphragm. I walk and walk and take photos. I can list some things in a symbolic way: light, shadow, horizontal and vertical lines, many layers, colours, geometrical patterns, etc. They are complexly connected with each other and my eyes respond to what is visible there. (from an interview with Go Itami)

1976: Born in Tokushima, Japan / 2011: Sraunus / 2012: The 2012 Unpublished Award, Unseen Photo Fair, Offprint, Offprint Paris (Paris Photo), KiOSK (Paris Photo), 10x10 Japanese Photobooks at ICP (NY Art Book Fair), Space Cadet Actual Exhibition#1 / 2013: sktnkyshi at Vacant Tokyo, Compilation Tokyo.

Softcover, giant-like notepad. More on Go Itami's site.

Pages: +30
Place: Tokyo
Year: 2013
Publisher: Rondade
Size: 29 x 42 cm (approx.)

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