constant -Lisabbon Yellow- 2019
This image is the wall closing up of The Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal. I have been strongly fascinated from old art objects before 19 century. The artists of those time needed unbelievably long time to create thier art works. It must have taken years, decades, age, just long long long time. They had nothing but their hands and absolute technique. When I think about it, I feel the respect for the artists who completed their works only with it. Nowadays we live in high-tech world and don’t think about carefully our own technique any more.
We have every kind of machines or enen AI that take us no longer than years, months and sometime even less than hours to finish our ART. We are definitely spoiled from technical developments. I take photographs of old art objects closing up to transform old traditional techniques into our high-tech life, and I have chosen to use a digital camera to express the contrast between old techniques and new techniques.
constant -Milan Lines- 2016
This image is the sculputure closing up in the Museum of the Duomo of Milan. I have been strongly fascinated from old art objects before 19 century. The artists of those time needed unbelievably long time to create thier art works. It must have taken years, decades, age, just long long long time. They had nothing but their hands and absolute technique. When I think about it, I feel the respect for the artists who completed their works only with it. Nowadays we live in high-tech world and don’t think about carefully our own technique any more.
We have every kind of machines or enen AI that take us no longer than years, months and sometime even less than hours to finish our ART. We are definitely spoiled from technical developments. I take photographs of old art objects closing up to transform old traditional techniques into our high-tech life, and I have chosen to use a digital camera to express the contrast between old techniques and new techniques.
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Junko Miyama
Japan
I am a Tokyo born Japanese photographer who learned photography in Tokyo and Sydney. I started photography because of interest in the difference between what the human eye sees and what the camera´s mechanical eye captures,
which fascinates me and motivates me all the time. What exists to our vision undergoes a somewhat mysterious and often accidental or unintended transformation through how the camera records what we lay before it and how we manipulate. I have lived and worked in Berlin for more than 15 years and my works have exhibited in Tokyo, Sydney, Berlin and Athens.