"Lights on Earth" Takechi Kukaito December 2016th - December 12th, 12
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: July 2016st (Monday) - August 12th (Friday), 12
Exhibitor: Kukaito Takechi (1st year master's student, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences)
A fleeting moment between day and night,
The city always starts to shine somewhere.
An exhibition of city lights photographed in various places around the world.
T+review
"Magic hour" refers to the brief period of twilight that comes after sunset. Takechi Kukaito's photographs are of cityscapes from around the world taken during that time. Each of these photographs emits a dazzling light, and each light captured by the camera through long exposure photography appears as a trail on the screen. The cityscapes with that light are beautiful and leave an impression that is captivating. This is because he photographs the emotional part of people that cannot be captured by the human eye. In other words, his photographs show a lack of realism that simply depicts reality as it is. These are not simply landscape photographs, but are largely staged in the works, which give them a different meaning than the plain cityscape. However, the brilliant light powerfully conveys to us the hidden beauty of the city, and in the sense that it expresses something that cannot be seen, something that the photographer himself senses, I think that it is a successful piece of artistic photography. (Hamada Yosuke)
