Photography
Artist statement in photography
Erika Matsunami
My artistic intention in analogue and digital photography is to transform things in space on a two-dimensional surface through exposure to film by releasing the shutter.
That is not a trick, but rather that it happens through natural phenomena. Thereby, the chemical phenomenon in analogue photography has totally different from intentionally dealing with natural phenomena with digital photography.
And in the process of taking a picture to create an object of the image, furthermore, it will be transposition into another space and time.
I work under the limited condition of photography generally. Thereby I use the specific optic, optic condition, film or other materials. Thereby, my attemptation is for taking unusual pictures under the low condition of photography.
It might be in between real and unreal or unknown places. The anonymity of photographic images, which makes sense for new narrativity in everyday life.
In both analogue and digital photography, I deal with the light, not the shadow by releasing the shutter. In other words, I do not engrave anything in the photographic picture, just I have been being there. It addresses being in time and space, and today, it leads to contemplating the humanity of digitization in the digital era. Mostly, I am interested in another aspect of photography more than as an artistic act, namely, as a philosophical consideration of time and space as an artistic object.
Photographs are basically produced only by contrasting the light sensitivity and optics, which exposures on film by analogue SLR camera, and on sensors by digital SLR camera.
I'm in the process of sorting out my photography (particularly analogue photography) in the drawing cabinet /Zeichenschrank. So I will update my photography little by little on this site.
A quick note on today's photo grading standards:
There is very little that cannot be implemented with current technologies and techniques. In this case, I think that the emphasis of the standard is on intent (purpose), including the artist's (author's) unintended goals, and his/her methodology.
The quality of a photograph is, that is photographed by a person "I" in relation to the object, an act of "corresponding" in the environment of the object.
Analogue Photography B.O.D.Y.
B.O.D.Y. - the second skin with anologue photography colour and B&W (2000–2009/2023) for the exhibiton SKIN, Dark Gallery CPH
B.O.D.Y. - the second skin (2000 – 2009 / 2023)
"skin as a bodily organ"
The information is transmitted to the brain via neurons. sensory neurons send information from the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin to the brain. As an artistic representation, I mechanically explore it by analogizing this subtlety and structural complexity.
Digital Photography N.N - Zwischenliegend
Analogue photography Wonderland (2023)
This photo project "Wonderland" consists of my analog photographs from the 1990s to around 2006 and analog photographs taken in Berlin in 2023. Both use black & white and color film.
Analog photography from the later1990s to around 2006 is not a city, but a natural landscape photograph of the countryside. Geographically, which pictures I cannot remember in where I have taken. (Ich suche und sammle seit Anfang der 90er Jahre bis heute "Steine" für Bildhauerei in Europa. So lernte ich die Geographie, Topographie und das Klima in Europa kennen. Ich fotografiere auch heute noch mit meiner analogen Spiegelreflexkamera.)
Storytelling is about 'time and space' from my relationship to places where I can't remember, which places, they can't be shown on maps, just the images in my memory, from photographs, that what I wanted to capture there. The analog photographs taken in Berlin in 2023 are about places that can be presented on a map and "time and space" in my living space (historically in the 1990s the word 'Lebensraum*' (Habitat) still applied as a term, right after the end of the Cold War in Germany.), today people say 'around me - in my surroundings'. In doing so, I will deal with the subject of the artistic act of photographing and recording as well as commemorating or memorialising. What I looked for the place, where I can find 'stone' for the sculpture, and took the surrounding (nature). For example, the relationship between the Greek island of Naxos and marble, and geography and topography. I looked for the origin of the European sculpture and explored meaning of 'stone' for comparing with the asian culture. I already lived in Berlin. In Berlin, the Cold War between East and West had just ended, and the East-West problem was the center of attention.
In my artistic research, this point of 'stone' and its geography is different of origin of mythology between north and south european countries. I have visited to the places in Denmark and Sweden in 2018 after 2016, my visiting for attending the conference and the congress, in Uppsala, Sweden, in Barcelona, Spain, in Athens, Greece and in Warsaw, Poland in 2016.
*The reason that this became the subject of 'Lebensraum' (Habitat) in the massacres of Jews and nomads in Europe under the German Nazi dictatorship was due to the fact that it was used bureaucratically by the ideology of persecution against the lack of origin. (that the ideology of persecution against origin-lessness was bureaucratically exploited.)
Artistic research Urban Hub
Digital photography o.T. - transformative processes
This work is digital photography from 2014 to today.
Keywords: aging; ecology; environment; cognition;
under construction
Analogue Photography I–ARUIWA
Without computer processing.
Scanned directly from the original film and printed on archival paper.
My photographic work is a work of art where light falls on the film when the shutter button is pressed (exposure on film by the analogue photo camera). This process makes it possible to print the digitized data (scanned) directly onto archival paper without exposing the photo paper from the film. This is a suitable method of my photographic work.
This work captures the environment and the light reflected from the water drops.
Artistic research "From threefoldness to multi-foldness"
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