Hiroshi Sugimoto

Featuring 26 large-scale works from two of Sugimoto’s most recent series, Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawing, this breathtaking show consists entirely of work shown for the first time in Europe.

Lightning Fields is a series of dramatic photographs produced through the play of violent electrical discharges on photographic film. The Photogenic Drawing series was inspired by the innovative techniques of the 19th century photographer, Henry Fox Talbot.

This revelatory exhibition offers the chance to experience first hand Sugimoto’s exploration of the very nature of photography.

Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of the world’s leading photographers. Starting in the mid 1970s, he has steadily gained a growing reputation for his series of photographs and has prodcued some of the most celebrated and poetic images of our time. Often employing a long exposure time, or subjects which are themselves frozen in time, the series reveals Sugimoto’s fascination with the relationship of photography to time.

Born in Tokyo in 1948, Sugimoto considered studying science before graduating in 1970 from Tokyo’s St Paul University with a degree in politics and sociology. He then moved to the United States to study art, graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1974.

The same year, Sugimoto relocated to New York, where he quickly began to establish himself as one of the leading contemporary photographers, with works entering major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in 1978. Since then he has shown regularly at major museums and galleries around the world.

Sugimoto currently divides his time between Tokyo and New York, where his studio is based.

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Presented in partnership with Edinburgh International Festival
Ort: Modern Two