Storm Last Night
Nao Tsuda
Akaaka-Sha
English and Japanese
Hardcover
96 pages
360 x 180 mm
2010
ISBN 9784903545653
In ”Storm Last Night,” Nao Tsuda continues to create landscape photography which is motivated by a mystical concept rather than a simple desire to photograph nature. The photos in this book–which is printed in a unique panoramic format–were all shot in Ireland, where Tsuda’s own grandfather had lived for a time. Upon finding a series of photos of his grandfather, which had been pasted together in such a way as to resemble a panorama, he felt motivated to shoot panoramic photos of the country. Tsuda’s panoramas show unpeopled landscapes of and around Ireland’s stunning coastline; he wanted to consider the ruggedness of this landscape in relation to the possibility of shelter offered by the fortresses. In a statement at the end of the book, he says that when shooting the work for ”Storm Last Night,” he was thinking of the following question: ”What were the ideological issues of the ancients?” This is certainly a large thought to keep in mind when viewing the photographs, but it shows Tsuda’s broad ambition for his work.
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About the Artist
Nao Tsuda is a photographer who has been showing his landscape photographs since 2001. The main series of works include, “Coming Closer” (2001-2004), “Kogi” (2005-2009), “SMOKE LINE” (2008), “Rera Faraway” (2009), “Storm Last Night” (2010), “REBORN” (2010-), “Earth Rain House” (2012), “SAMELAND”(2014), “NAGA”(2015), “Tribute from Green Forest”(2015), and “Elnias Forest”(2018). Number of works from these series have been shown internationally. With his unique view toward nature and his sincere approach to a timeless theme: the relationship between photography and time, Tsuda is spotlighted as a cutting-edge, who is cultivating a new trend of the landscape photography in 21st century. He photographs objects, such as lakes, surface of mountains, cloudy fogs, winds and paths of the moon from hardly distinguishable distances or angles in an effort to break out of, or beyond the limit of photographic expression. In recent years, Tsuda has been actively showing his works not only at galleries, but also in solo and group exhibitions at museums.
In 2010, Tsuda won the Minister of Educational Award for New Artist in Fine Arts. Since 2017, he has been taking office as a visiting professor of Osaka University of Arts.
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About the Publisher
akaaka-sha was founded in 2006 by Kimi Himeno in Japan. Specializing in photography and art, AKAAKA have published more than 200 books in the past 12 years, featuring a diverse range Japanese and international artists, seven of whom have been awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Photo Prize.
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