The Von Lintel Gallery currently has on view One Sun, a new photographic series by Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru. After a long-term preoccupation with death which the artist explored in his series Landscapes with a Corpse, Kaoru finds comfort in nature traveling around the world documenting "the path of the sun from sunrise to sunset on a single day in a given location" (from show's press release). The artist used "a fisheye lens and long exposure," leaving the camera's shutter open "from dawn to dusk, capturing 360 degree views of the sun's progress as it made its way across the sky."
The resulting images showcase a luminous, thin line stretching across the length of a perfect, blue sky in various forms and positions. Sometimes the sun's path is shown stick straight as in Kenya (where it was vertical) and Singapore (where it was horizontal); sometimes it's circular as in Norway; and sometimes it's gently arced as in Tokyo during the Winter Solstice; or more dramatically curved as in Lanaii, Hawaii, where the golden trail looks like a big, happy smile. Along the blue edges of the round photographs, tiny specks of buildings, palm trees, and mountain-tops can be seen. Kaoru cut his vibrant, large-scale images round to emulate the "the celestial orb for which the series One Sun is named." Viewing Kaoru's vivid, time-lapsed photos of wide, open, peaceful skies is somewhat meditative and humbling - making one feel sort of small and insignificant. Learn more at vonlintel.com. Through October 9th.
Lanai, Hawaii, 2007
Mt. Fuji, Japan, 2007
Nanyuki, Kenya, 2007
Nordkapp, Norway #2, 2007
Sentosa, Singapore, 2006
Toyosu, Tokyo Winter Solstice, 2007
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