Tag Archives: Ryuji Miyamoto

The photographic tinkerers

E and I recently won tickets to a concert by a Congolese band that I had never heard of, Staff Benda Bilili (‘benda bilili’ means beyond appearances). Apart from the incredible energy that these guys managed to generate despite 80% of the band being paraplegic and all of them living (or having lived) in the [...]
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Some things I bought this year

I’ve seen quite a few end of year lists popping up over the last week. There are the best books of 2009 lists, the more eclectic lists of “stuff I liked this year“, the lists of books acquired in 2009 and many more. I think you need to be a breakfast-lunch-and-dinner kind of consumer of [...]
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Paris Photo and beyond

It’s that time of year: once again Paris Photo is breathing down the back of our neck and my diary is already getting out of hand. As always there is a lot to look forward to at Paris Photo itself, but the key to making it through these five days alive is leaving Paris Photo [...]
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Ryuji Miyamoto: the grass, the bugs

Ryuji Miyamoto has just had an exhibition of new work at Taro Nasu Gallery in Tokyo’s equivalent of the meat-packing district, Higashi-kanda. These new photograms are quite a departure from his earlier work on the destruction of architecture. Miyamoto had already begun experimenting with photographic techniques for his previous series Pinhole, for which he built [...]
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Ryuji Miyamoto

Ryuji Miyamoto is best known for his work on architecture, and, more often than not, on its destruction. With his series Pinhole, he had departed somewhat from his previous work by building his own pinhole hut in which he climbs to make his exposures of landscapes. He will be showing new work at Tokyo’s Taro [...]
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