From “When the absence of light touches the ground, distance is lost and distance created” and “Daily Photographs”
graspable but not, nearly touching but not
neither absent nor real
no more than an incidental part of its existence,
it seems alive when viewed closely
as if living across this world
no way to touch them
but sometimes I can catch them in my camera
🅗 Minato Mirai 21 Central District 52 District Development Project Plan Temporary Enclosure for Construction (King Axis)
5-1-2 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
Ryudai TAKANO
Born in 1963, Ryudai Takano won the 31st Ihei Kimura Photography Award in 2006 for his sexuality themed photo collection “IN MY ROOM,” and in 2011 he published “Kasubaba,” a collection of photographs of distinctive Japanese streetscapes, and in 2016 he published “When the absence of light touches the ground, distance is lost and distance created,” a collection of photographs themed on shadows. In exploring the outer boundaries of institutionalized vision, Takano focuses on familiar subjects such as gender, the city, light and shadow. In 2021, he held the solo exhibition “Mainichi Photography 1999-2021” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka; in 2022, he received the 72nd Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize (Art Division) and the 38th Higashikawa Award for Photography (Domestic Artist Prize).