Hiroshi Sugimoto – Visions in My Mind

In his ongoing technical and aesthetic exploration of traditional photography, Hiroshi Sugimoto demonstrates the enduring modernity of a language and craft at risk of disappearing in the age of the digital revolution. Born in Tokyo during the American occupation and having moved to the United States since the 1970s, the photographer has progressively combined Western forms and content with the sensibility of his native culture, constantly moving between Japan, Los Angeles, and New York, where he ultimately settled. The obsessive attention to every detail and his relationship with painting and theater are just some elements of Sugimoto’s art, which highlights the paradoxical nature of photography, always caught between its documentary value and its aesthetic significance. As he himself says, photography is art and therefore not concerned with mere representation of reality: “abstraction is better.