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Art Subject: Nature
4FT, Las Vegas - Black and White Square American Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Four Feet', photographed at a swimming pool in Las Vegas, part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series.
Primarily known as a color photographer Richard Heeps was commissioned to ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Untitled - Contemporary, Photograph, 21st Century
By Josey Cary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled
2019, 20x24cm, Edition of 1/10.
Digital C-Print based a Polaroid Film and Fire.
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the back with Certificate.
Not mounted.
Josey Car...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Night Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed.
Two 40h x 26w inch monotypes. Signed on the back by the artist.
Images of the prints framed are just to give a sense of how much wall they would cover once framed with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Monotype, Photogram
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Dives Blue Whale - Signed limited nature fine art print, Color underwater photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Dives Blue Whale - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2018 - Edition of 5
Sri Lanka - One second in the blue….
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-free and lignin-free paper, Museum quality paper for highest age resistance and a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper). The inks used are also known for their longevity.
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity.
Archival pigment print available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted) :
50 x 75 cm / 19,68 x 29,52 in. - Edition of 5
70 x 105 cm / 27,55 x 41,33 in - Edition of 5
Olivier Borde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment
4th of July #70 (US Road trip Diary) - Polaroid, Landscape, US, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
4th of July #70 -
from the series US Road trip Diary -
2007, 20x20cm, Edition of 10.
Archival pigment print, based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOOTH p...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
$300 Sale Price
34% Off
Cleopatra Eyes - Portrait of Blue-Eyed Siberian Husky with Ice and Snow on Fur
By Tim Flach
Located in Brighton, GB
Cleopatra Eyes - Portrait of Blue-Eyed Siberian Husky with Ice and Snow on Fur by Tim Flach
Cleopatra Eyes is a 50.8cm x 81.2cm C-Type Print
Limited E...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color
Bryce Canyon #91 (US Road trip Diary) - Polaroid, Landscape, US, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bryce Canyon #91
from the series US Road trip Diary
2007, 50x50cm, Edition of 10.
Archival pigment print, based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOOTH paper...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Lilies - River Water Still Life Photography Natural Environment
By Morgan Silk
Located in Brighton, GB
'Lilies' is an Archival Inkjet Print by contemporary photographer Morgan Silk.
Lilies by Morgan Silk is available in this size of 17" x 24" in a limited edition of 25.
From the se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Color
Ligurian glow - Italian coast lanscape photography, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Ligurian glow'
Tellaro, Italy 2024
Limited edition of 20.
Printed on Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta 308 Gsm fine art paper, these limited edition photographs are designed to withsta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Giclée
Palm (Sepia Toned Landscape of a Tree in Tonga)
Located in Hudson, NY
Sepia Toned Photograph of a Palm Tree in Tonga
17 x 17, edition of 25
Silver Gelatin Print, unframed
David Halliday's series consists of sepia-toned still lif es of antique objects...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Misty Maple I (24 x 18 inch monotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Motel Entrance II, Salton Sea, California - Mid-Century Architecture Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Classic mid-century architecture in this artwork from the Salton Sea California. Rich blues, palm trees with pops of orange create the perfect palette with the Agfa Ultra film rebate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Deep Inside III #8, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #8 is a Giclée Print on Cotton Paper (Hahnemuhle Rag Paper 308g) print available in this size in a limited edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Born in Porqueres, a sma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flowering Eucalyptus III ( 30 x 21.5 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this may look like a woodcut or screen print, it is a kind of photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process. This monotype was print...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Solstice 3 - still life floral abstract landscape contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Deep Inside III #11, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #11 is a Giclée Print on Cotton Paper (Hahnemuhle Rag Paper 308g) print available in this size in a limited edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Born in Porqueres, a sm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée
Deep Inside III #7, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #7 is a Giclée Print on Cotton Paper (Hahnemuhle Rag Paper 308g) print available in this size in an edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Born in Porqueres, a small vill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée
Changing Moods 5- Floral landscape cyan blue color contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Berg Park I - Forest Landscape Woodland Photography
By Morgan Silk
Located in Brighton, GB
Berg Park I is an Archival Inkjet Print by contemporary photographer Morgan Silk.
It is available in this size in an Edition of 25.
Morgan Silk has been involved in creating photo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Color, Inkjet
Horse in winter by Hans Withoos
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
Ask us for framing options
Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Deep Inside III #12, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #12 is a Giclée Print on Cotton Paper (Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308g) print available in this size in a limited edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Born in Porqueres, a sm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée
Water element 2 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, Blue dark
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Water element 2 - Limited ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Dream Span, Butterfly, Contemporary Color Fine Art Photography
Located in New york, NY
For Dream Span a contemporary color photograph of a butterfly, Roberta Fineberg explores the natural and man-made world in which a caterpillar breaks free of its skin for a metamorphosis. Hatching into an exquisite creature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Deep Inside III #9, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #9 is a Giclée Print on Cotton Paper (Hahnemuhle Rag Paper 308g) print available in this size in an edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Born in Porqueres, a small vill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée
Deep Inside III #5, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #5 is a Giclée Print on Cotton Paper (Hahnemuhle Rag Paper 308g) print available in this size in a limited edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Born in Porqueres, a sma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée
Deep Inside III #4, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #4 is a Giclée Print on Cotton Paper (Hahnemuhle Rag Paper 308g) print available in this size in a limited edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Born in Porqueres, a sma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée
Untitled Succulent, From the series Ser Cosa, Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled Succulent, 2010 by Rodrigo Etem
From the series Ser Cosa
Archival pigment print on fine art paper
Size: 32 H x 24 W inches.
Edition of 7
Unframed
…this series of portraits...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Deep Inside III #1, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #1 is a Giclée Print on Cotton paper print which is available in this size in a limited edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Capturing the limpid liquid forms of water ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Sirens
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
30 x 38 inches
40 x 50 inches
48 x 60 inches
(Total edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rainbow Steps
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "Art for me is something that conveys a specific mood and invites the viewer to a dreamlike space. I explore every aspect of aircraft with playing with color arrangements, color stripes and the direction the subject is going to. I visualize my ideas in 3D. CGI gives me the freedom to discover and balance the scenery. In my scenes I focus on a mundane thing like a flight and mix it with joyful elements such as balloons, soft colors and rainbows. One thing that is subtle but with a twist." - Saint Vines...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cali 180722-125 (Americana, California, Desert, Palm Trees, 40% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Cali 180722-125
Pigment Print
Year: 2018
Visible Size: 13 x 13 inches
Framed: 20.5 x 20.5 inches
Signed: On Label
Edition: 7
COA provided
*White frame with standard ...
Category
2010s American Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Pigment
Camelback Mountain, Scottsdale in Jell-O
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings into something unexpected and ephemeral. Lit from below, the molded shapes of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Chowchilla #131 (US Road trip Diary) - Polaroid, Landscape, US, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Chowchilla #131, 2007
[From the series US Road Trip Diary]
Edition of 7 - numbers 1/7-3/7, 20x44x0,5cm.
Photo compilation based on 2 expired Polaroids,
printed on Plexiglass Dias...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Snake Dips Down, Hong Kong - Asian still life, color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Snake Dips Down, interior photograph from Richard Heeps Ordinary Places series, it was captured in the final years of British Hong Kong in a colonial home on the Peak. The almost mon...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Pressed Flowers in Blue, Botanical Nordic Style, Traditional Cyanotype
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº1
+ Year: 2021
+ Edition Size: 20
+ St...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Other Medium
Under Water (Zuma Beach)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Under Water (Zuma Beach) - 2004
38x37cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Metal
Nest I
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Portraits of found nests. Price includes frame.
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Botanic Garden Palm Leaves, Handmade Tropical Still Life Cyanotype in Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype of a beautiful palm leave.
Details:
+ Title: Tropical Palm Branches
+ Year: 2024
+ Edition Size: 20
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size
+ All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper
* Frame is for illustrative purposes only. Artwork shipped carefully rolled and packaged in a tube.
WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE?
The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's.
Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer. Inspired by nature, we feel the need to look back at a craft that is handmade, analogue, and using an all-natural light source: the sun.
Our cyanotypes are made by coating high-quality Italian watercolor paper with a light-sensitive emulsion. We then expose it in direct sunlight for several minutes using a photo negative to get the best image quality. Finally, the print is washed and fixed with water to stop the reaction and prevent fading.
What you get is an amazing, royal blue image...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Lithograph, Monotype
Death Valley Junction #109 (US Road trip Diary) - Polaroid, Landscape, US, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Death Valley Junction #109
from the series US Road trip Diary
2007, 50x50cm, Edition of 10.
Archival pigment print, based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SM...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Chateau Reflection
Located in Burlingame, CA
Still life photographer Russel Kiehn’s interests lie in images that are in plain sight yet are often overlooked. He seeks a dialogue between a subject and the photographic medium; be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Death Valley Junction #114 (US Road trip Diary) - Polaroid, Landscape, US, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Death Valley Junction #114, 2007
[From the series US Road Trip Diary]
21x55x0,5cm,
Edition of 7.
Photo compilation based on the 3 expired Polaroids,
printed on Plexiglass Diasec...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Rainbow Rain
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "Art for me is something that conveys a specific mood and invites the viewer to a dreamlike space. I explore every aspect of aircraft with playing with color arrangements, color stripes and the direction the subject is going to. I visualize my ideas in 3D. CGI gives me the freedom to discover and balance the scenery. In my scenes I focus on a mundane thing like a flight and mix it with joyful elements such as balloons, soft colors and rainbows. One thing that is subtle but with a twist." - Saint Vines...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rainbow Flight
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "Art for me is something that conveys a specific mood and invites the viewer to a dreamlike space. I explore every aspect of aircraft with playing with color arrangements, color stripes and the direction the subject is going to. I visualize my ideas in 3D. CGI gives me the freedom to discover and balance the scenery. In my scenes I focus on a mundane thing like a flight and mix it with joyful elements such as balloons, soft colors and rainbows. One thing that is subtle but with a twist." - Saint Vines...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marbled Cotton Candy
By Julia Stotz
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Julia Stotz is a food and still life photographer that strives to capture the simple everyday moment with a sense of sincerity and wonder. Her food still-life’s sho...
Category
2010s Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Monument Valley #73 (US Road trip Diary) - Polaroid, Landscape, US, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Monument Valley #73 -
from the series US Road trip Diary -
2007, 20x20cm, Edition of 10.
Archival pigment print, based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOO...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Grand Canyon #35 (US Road trip Diary) - Polaroid, Landscape, US, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Grand Canyon #35 -
from the series US Road trip Diary -
2007, 20x20cm, Edition of 10.
Archival pigment print, based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOOTH ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Barn, Samuel Hicks - Contemporary Landscape Photography, Sunset, Nature, Farm
By Samuel Hicks
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days.
Barn is a stunning C-Type Print in an Edition of 25 by contemporary photographer Sam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Forest, Paranoia Series. Landscape. Limited Edition Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Forest, 2018 by Salvatore Arnone
From Paranoia series
Digital print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth
Image size: 27.5 in. H x 39.4 in. W
Edition of 5 + 2AP
Production time is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Snake Dips Down, Hong Kong - Asian still life, color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Captured in the final years of British Hong Kong in a colonial home on the Peak, this beautifully subtle piece, the muted tones and the Tai Chi figurines create a sense of yin and ya...
Category
1980s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Nest II
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Portraits of found nests. Price includes frame.
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Take Out Containers no. 1, Montara, California
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Patio 1/8 - detailed, documentary, exterior, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Compelling, enigmatic and ultimately real, Shani Mootoo’s photographs of her childhood home in Trinidad chronicle a life. This is one in a series of images the artist calls the ‘Hist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée
Lake Opinicon 1/8 - abstracted landscape, color photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Rippling waters act as a mirror reflecting the sunlit lush green landscape and a white and red buoy in this peaceful photograph by Shani Mootoo. The shot has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée
Lambs Ears
Located in Sante Fe, NM
9 x 12 inch images, matted at 16 x 20 inches, limited edition of 5, starting at $1,200
12 x 16 inch images matted at 20 x 24 inches, limited edition of 5, starting at $1,600
Each suc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Coating, Rag Paper, Pigment
Nest III
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Portraits of found nests. Price includes frame.
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Garage (Garage, Still Life, Backdrop, Chair, Table, Wig, Colorful, Funny)
By David Pugh
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Pugh
Garage
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, 100% Cotton Fibre, 315 gsm, Acid and Lignin free, ISO 9706 conform / museum quality for highest age resistanc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Solstice #3 - Floral still life abstract landscape contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
City Hall
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings into something unexpected and ephemeral. Lit from below, the molded shapes of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
ALJ #7- abstract floral still life contemporary landscape color photography
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century. With multiplied ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Homage to Wilson A. Bentley #19
By Yuji Obata
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing, free shipping and 14-day returns.
Yuji Obata
Homage to Wilson A. Bentley #4, 2005 - 2006
19 x 13 inch archival pigment print
Edition 3 of 10
Signed and editioned on verso
Yuji Obata was born in Japan in 1962. He attended the Nihon University College of Art and currently resides in Tokyo. He has won numerous photography prizes in Japan, and his work was first shown outside of Japan in 2010 with Danziger Projects at Pulse Miami.
In 2003, Obata was compelled to photograph winter scenes in Japan as he stood in front of Pieter Bruegel's painting "The Hunters in the Snow" in Vienna's Museum of Art History. Upon returning to Japan, he traveled to the country's northernmost island, Hokkaidō, known for its cold and snowy winters. As he worked there photographing ice skaters at a middle school rink and a local speed skating team, his enchantment with images of winter deepened. Traveling around different regions of the island in winter, he began noticing the varied qualities of the snow itself, and finally became fascinated with the unique challenge of photographing snowflakes.
Obata drew inspiration from the story and works of W.A. Bentley, an American farmer and photographer who adapted a camera and microscope to photograph a single snow crystal for the first time in 1885. Bentley went on to photograph more than 5,000 snowflakes in his lifetime, and his technique was so successful that it continues to be used today.
Like Bentley, Obata was obsessed with the challenge of doing something no one had done before – in his case photographing snowflakes in freefall rather than on a flat surface without digital or any other manipulation. It took Obata five years to achieve but his breakthrough resulted in the capture of pictures that allow the snowflakes to relate to each other in space and size, creating dynamic compositions and scenes. Obata chose the location to shoot the series, in the mountains of Hokkaidō, based on its history as the place where Dr. Ukichiro Nakaya did research that led to his invention of artificial snow.
His most recent book "Wintertale" gathers his photographs of winter...
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
