The exhibition will open at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum on Saturday, March 19, 2022. For more information, please click here.
○ features
1. First large-scale solo exhibition showcasing all series to date
Naoki Honjo's gaze has been drawn not only to cityscapes but also to schools, parks, industrial areas, forests, savannas, and many other places. This exhibition presents the experimental works leading up to his characteristic tilt-shift technique, including the “small planet” series, which won the 32nd Kimura Ihei Award in 2006, and a number of other series derived from these works that illustrate Naoki Honjo's work to date.
small planet / Tokyo, Japan / 2005
small planet / Nakayama Racecourse, Chiba, Japan / 2005
2. Debut of kenya, industry, and tohoku 311 series
kenya captures the African savanna, industry takes a rarely seen aerial look at industrial areas, and tohoku 311 is an impromptu series of images shot from a helicopter just three months after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. This is the first time that these series of works will be shown together in public.
industry / open pit mining, Fukuoka / 2008
kenya / giraffe / 2008
3. Photos of exhibition host cities
Honjo has long photographed cities and human activity. As part of a new experiment, he now creates a special work of art in which he photographs the cities for each of the participating museums. We hope that you enjoy Honjo’s approach of engaging with each city and its people to create a kind of portrait through his eyes.
