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"Swimming Pool"
Published in "Small Planet"
"Racetrack"
Published in "Small Planet"
"Tokyo Taxi Stand"
Published in "Small Planet"
"Swedish Shipping Terminal"
Published in "Small Planet"
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Japanese Contemporary Photography
Naoki Honjo
Honjo photographs containers, urban environments, express highways, sporting events, and countryside. They are mostly populated with people. The photos are as shot from towers, skyscrapers, or helicopters using a tilt shift lens, which makes the environments appear to be model like. They are not altered through computer manipulation. Honjo aims to express a "sense of falseness" about the environments we live in. This gives the viewer the strange sense of looking at an image that is between fiction and reality.
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Selected Resume
1978 Born in Tokyo
2002 Graduated with BA in Photography, Department of Arts at Tokyo Polytechnic, University School of Arts
2004 Completed MA Media Art Course, Department of Arts at Tokyo Polytechnic, University School of Arts.
2004 Group Exhibition, Swedish Update Design Express & Midsummer Kafe, Embassy of Sweden, Tokyo.
Group Exhibiton, "Young Portfolio Acquisitions", Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi.
2005 Solo Exhibition, "Small Garden" Superstore Inc., Tokyo.
Solo Exhibition, "Travelogue", Someya Garou Junbishitsu, Chiba.
2006 Solo Exhibition, "Small Planet", Good Design Company Gallery, Tokyo.
Group Exhibiton, "Criteriom 67", Art Tower Mito, Tokyo.
Awards:
2003 Encouraging prize. Fuji Photo Salon New Face Award
Student prize. Epson Color Imaging Contest.
2004 New Cosmos of Photography 2004.
2007 32nd Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award
Public Collections: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York
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