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  • Ryota Hisanabe

    Ryota Hisanabe

    Ryota Hisanabe is an Australian-Japanese photographer living in Spain.

    I’ve started to take photography since I was eleven or twelve years old, influenced by record jackets in the 90’s in Japan. It becomes more serious/passionate after entering a university by studying industrial design. German photography impressed me a lot at the study, and now and then their style is always behind my photography ideas.

    I love humans but, at the same time, I hate them. We are beautiful and ugly. I don’t take photos of any people, because it gives so much energy to me. Instead, I take photos of a trace of humanity. The sense of people. That may be what I cannot touch but I am willing to obtain, thus I record it as a two dimensional format.

    Photographs

    West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Ryota Hisanabe
    Time/Unseen
    Time/Unseen (Melbourne, 2022) Ryota Hisanabe
    Wedekindstraße, Berlin, Germany
    Wedekindstraße, Berlin, Germany, Ryota Hisanabe
    Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, Germany
    Karl-Marx-Allee (Berlin, Germany) Ryota Hisanabe
    Fake ( 2010) Tokyo Nostalgia 10/40
    Fake, Tokyo Nostalgia 10/40 (2010) Ryota Hisanabe
    Uniform
    Uniform (2009) Ryota Hisanabe
    Sunny poolside, Newcastle, NSW, Ryota Hisanabe
    Girder bridge 2
    Girder bridge 2 Ryota Hisanabe
    Forbidden (2018) [1/250, F19, PORTRA 400]
    Forbidden (1/250, F19, PORTRA 400, 2018) Ryota Hisanabe
    flow 3 (2010) Tokyo Nostalgia 14/47
    flow 3 (Tokyo Nostalgia 14/47, 2010) Ryota Hisanabe
    Expenses (2022) Ryota Hisanabe
    Expenses (2022) Ryota Hisanabe
    Echo (2010) Tokyo Nostalgia 20/47
    Echo Tokyo Nostalgia 20/47 (2010) Ryota Hisanabe
    Brighton, Victoria, Australia
    Brighton, Victoria, Australia (2022) Ryota Hisanabe
  • Nigel Cross

    Nigel Cross

    I was given a Voigtländer Vito B in the 1970s and started taking photos. Since then I’ve never stopped taking photos but am only now beginning to understand how difficult photography really is. I make images that satisfy my inner need for simplicity and tranquility.

    I haven’t arrived at a ‘style,’ but I recognise that my frames do have a ‘look.’ Always distracted by light and practically addicted to contre-jour images—I have no explanation of why that came to be my way of making images. It may be just the edges and contrasts backlighting brings to an image. Also, I like my images to capture drama and serenity in equal measure—and landscape really helps with that.

    Because I learnt photography on film and with old-school chemical darkroom technique, I had to unlearn a lot of technical things about exposure when transitioning to digital. I can get wrapped up in the technical aspects of photography, sometimes even to the point of losing what I’m shooting for! I’m more likely to get a keeper by simply responding to the light of a scene.

    I was born on the north-west coast of Tasmania and grew up there before running away to sea, and then becoming an educational systems designer by way of industrial design and teaching. I live and work in Hobart and most of the images in the gallery are from Tassie.

    I’ve been lucky to travel to Iceland twice and have recently been to Cornwall and Japan. There are only a couple of frames in this gallery from those islands but plenty more on flickr.

    Nigel Cross

    Flickr

    Images from islands (work in progress)