Eisyouji Wabisuke, 2005
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Yabu Tsubaki, 2007
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Tsushima no Musume, 2009
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Fuji, 2009
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Jinya no Tsubaki, 2005
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Usu Hassaku, 2005
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Beni Wabisuke, 2006
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Junya no Tsubaki, 2006
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Jinya no Tsubaki, 2006
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Yabu Tsubaki, 2009
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Koto no Karoi, 2009
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Yuraku, 2008
Platinum Print
10 x 8 in.
Ed. of 10
Ichigo Sugawara was born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1960. At the Osaka University of Art he studied under Kazuo Miyagawa, the director of photography for the filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. During this time he became enamored by the expression of dazzling light in Kurosawa’s film Rashomon, and began seeking his own ways of expressing light and warmth through photography.
Sugarwara created a unique process combining the wet plate with digital techniques adapted for this contemporary era. He built the unit with Motoyuki Kubo, one of the best printers in Japan, to create his own formula of compounded emulsion for glass print. Sugawara’s wet collodion process is completely new and yet orthodox at the same time.
SELECT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Hanmi Photograph Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Kobe Fashion Museum, Japan
Gunma Prefectural Museum of History, Japan
