• Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015)

Grainy, blurry, and out-of-focus images depicting a dystopian urban landscape, evoking an immersive sensory experience that challenges conventional documentary traditions.

• Daidō Moriyama (1938)

Raw and experimental work that defies photographic conventions, capturing Tokyo’s chaotic urban life through intentional blurs and grain.

• Ralph Gibson (1939)

Perception and abstraction through high-contrast black and white photography, emphasizing subjective experience over documentary representation.

• Ralph Gibson (1939)

Eroticism and desire depicted through high-contrast, fragmented compositions that isolate objects and figures from their contexts.

• Shōmei Tōmatsu (1930-2012)

The haunting remnants of the atomic bomb’s impact on Nagasaki, blending deformed objects and intimate portraits of survivors to reflect on themes of trauma, resilience, and the impermanence of life.

• Christer Strömholm (1918-2002)

Subjective impressions of post-war life conveyed through images of isolation, physical decay, and abandoned environments, where signs of death and loss shape a visual meditation on impermanence.