Hiroshi Sugimoto: 'My camera works as a time machine' | Hayward Gallery

October 10, 2023
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: 'My camera works as a time machine' | Hayward Gallery

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'A camera can be able to stop the world, in that we stop the world and then investigate what is there, carefully.’

Ahead of the opening of Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery – the largest survey to date of the Sugimoto’s works – we travelled to meet the photographer at the Enoura Observatory in Japan. Situated against the outer rim of the country’s Hakone Mountains, the observatory was designed by Sugimoto as a forum for disseminating art and culture.

In this short video interview Sugimoto considers the impact of the invention of the camera – with this new ability to pause the world around us – and explains how his own photography, such as his Seascapes series, draws on this idea of the camera’s ability to distort linear time.

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