A work in which a white core of light with blue and red haloes floats in darkness

KOCHI, JAPAN
SINCE 2006

Opening Light
in the Dark.

Using pinhole cameras and camera obscura,
Meisai Okamoto explores pinhole photography, light, darkness, vision, apparatus and how images appear.

Based in Kochi, Japan. Working since 2006.

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LIGHT: Light
DARKROOM: Darkroom
IMAGE: Image

Selected Works

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Works

穴の大きさによって変化する風景, 2024, artwork image 1

穴の大きさによって変化する風景

2024

CAMERA OBSCURA, 2017–2020, artwork image 1

CAMERA OBSCURA

2017–2020

部屋に空をうつす, 2024, artwork image 1

部屋に空をうつす

2024

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT NEXT TO THE DARK sakura, 2020, artwork image 1

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT NEXT TO THE DARK sakura

2020

umi, 2018, artwork image 1

umi

2018

COLOR, 2017, artwork image 1

COLOR

2017

BUILDING PHOTO, 2017, artwork image 1

BUILDING PHOTO

2017

The Apparatus Makes the Image.

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Camera & Process

Truck beds, rooms and openings in buildings.
Turning space itself into a photographic apparatus.

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Cardboard camera used to make heuristic — Cardboard Digital Camera No. 3For heuristic / 2011

Camera used to make THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT NEXT TO THE DARK — Lightweight Camera for THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT NEXT TO THE DARK2014

Camera used to make Corridor of Time — Camera for Corridor of Time2006

ABOUT THE WORK

Not only what is photographed,
but how it appears.
What does it mean to see?

Based in Kochi, Japan, Meisai Okamoto creates works using pinhole cameras and camera obscura.

What Is a Pinhole Camera?Profile

Exhibitions & Activities

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Exhibitions

2025

Pinhole Camera Extended

kanzan gallery, Tokyo

2018

Camera Obscura Exhibition

TAO gallery, Kochi

2017

A 3-DAY BUILDING PHOTO EXHIBITION

South harimaya Building, Kochi

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