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A Poem of Images
A Poem of Images
October 28, 2024
© Yasuhiro Ogawa – Into the Silence / 7:30 pm, Japan, 2021. Courtesy of the Buchkunst Gallery, Berlin
Yasuhiro Ogawa is considered one of the new powerful voices in Japanese photography. With unique perspectives and great emotional depth, he captures the beauty and mystery of travel, creating images that are as impactful as they are timeless. His work is a retelling of the classic themes and contemplative nature of Japanese landscape photography.
Landscapes emerge as if on a canvas, filtering through the steamed-up windows of a train, the darkness brushing against the light. Snow falls on soft, muted colours. The places in Ogawa’s photographs appear to be under a spell. His contemplative, decelerated visual language tells of the freedom of being on the road, the inherent simplicity of life. His images awaken our innermost longing for a primordial experience of nature – far from the man-made, increasingly artificial structures of modern life.
Katrin UllmannLandscapes emerge as if on a canvas, filtering through the steamed-up windows of a train, the darkness brushing against the light. Snow falls on soft, muted colours. The places in Ogawa’s photographs appear to be under a spell. His contemplative, decelerated visual language tells of the freedom of being on the road, the inherent simplicity of life. His images awaken our innermost longing for a primordial experience of nature – far from the man-made, increasingly artificial structures of modern life.
© Yasuhiro Ogawa – Into the Silence / 7:30 pm, Japan, 2021. Courtesy of the Buchkunst Gallery, Berlin
© Yasuhiro Ogawa – Into the Silence / Crows on Wintry Field, Japan, 2021. Courtesy of the Buchkunst Gallery, Berlin
© Yasuhiro Ogawa – Into the Silence / Seaside Cat, Japan, 2017. Courtesy of the Buchkunst Gallery, Berlin
© Yasuhiro Ogawa – The Dreaming / Guatemala, 1997.
Courtesy of the Buchkunst Gallery, Berlin