Reverence of complexity and haste have so far removed the photographic medium from its foundations that no longer does a ‘photographer’ or ‘filmmaker’ have to experience or work with the tangibility of the fundamental elements of image-making. My practice is a call for the return to the fundamental. an exploration of visual intimacy via a call for the return to the fundamental. I search within the mundane, to bring attention to moments overlooked, emphasizing of different modes of perception. I look for nuances of fundamental elements of time, space, form, light and movement. My use of analogue techniques, a reverence for the fundamental and of slowing down, and the searching for quietude is grounded in a yearning for what I feel is a slowly disappearing sensibility and visual intimacy in our current fast paced world. My current work investigates the entity of movement between the still and moving image.
Kioto Aoki
untitled (2017)