Lightweight camera for THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT NEXT TO THE DARK, 2014
PROJECT 01 / 2014
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT NEXT TO THE DARK
The opening inside the picture
This is the first series in which I photographed the pinhole itself.
WORKS / 2006–2024
Work Series
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Explore the photograph, then follow the camera, related work or installation record where one is documented. The complete work archive follows below.
Lightweight camera for THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT NEXT TO THE DARK, 2014
穴の大きさによって変化する風景 / 2024
PROJECT 02 / 2024
部屋に空をうつす
Projecting the Sky into a Room
A landscape without a clear outline
When I entered a dark room and saw a landscape projected in blue onto the wall, I was surprised that the outside view could appear through a large opening. Even without a clear image, the landscape is still there. I made this work to give form to what interested me about that.
CAMERA TO CAMERA / 2008
PROJECT 03 / 2008
CAMERA TO CAMERA
A room as photographic apparatus
Thinking that a room could also become a camera, I built my own 8×10-format camera and made this series with 8-hour exposures.
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Press Kit and reviewsExhibition enquiryAn earlier point of dialogue: in Nobuo Yamanaka I respect (2013), Okamoto used a hole in a catalogue about Yamanaka to project the landscape outside. The making history traces how the opening became part of the picture.
Complete work archive
23 work series by Meisai Okamoto, presented through published images exploring pinhole cameras, camera obscura, pinhole photography, light and darkness.