Kazumi Kurigami PORTRAIT - First Edition

“PORTRAIT” Kazumi Kurigami 2013

To coincide with the Kazumi Kurigami "PORTRAIT" photography exhibition, the photo book "PORTRAIT" will be published.

With a sharp, penetrating gaze, he observes his subjects, imprinting his own senses onto the film as if shooting through them. Living photographs that resonate with the powerful gazes of the subjects looking into the lens, touching the hearts of the viewers. This book features 46 portraits by Kazumi Kurigami, not as fragments of time detached from reality, but as new lives that continue to live on forever. Available for purchase at the exhibition venue: http://gallery916.com/exhibition/portrait/

"The human face is a magnificent landscape."
Portraits as new lives that continue to live on forever, not as fragments of time detached from reality.

This book contains 47 carefully selected portraits from the photographer's works from 1965, when he became independent, to the present day, selected by . Rich gradations of monochrome. Dynamic movement. Responding to the powerful gazes of the subjects looking into the lens, he burns his own senses onto the film as if shooting through them.

For Kazumi, portraits are the result of daily "training of the eyes," and for both him and the models, it is a challenge where they cannot predict what kind of "magnificent scenery" will appear. It is the same for us, the viewers, and the views that appear as we turn the pages of the photo book or stand in front of each photograph always subtly, and sometimes greatly, exceed our expectations. For now, we should savor the extraordinary nature of the "extraordinary people" appearing there to our heart's content. - , "Photographing the 'Extraordinary People' - Kazumi Kurigami's Portraits"

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