#Shinya Arimoto

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Shinya Arimoto: Tokyo Debugger (2019)

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_____ Shinya Arimoto

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by Shinya Arimoto

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Belonging, Being, and Bugs, a Rolan Deep webweave

JRWI Blood in the Bayou, Epsiode 3 // Quora response // Shinya Arimoto: Tokyo Debugger (2019) // The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, T. S Elliot // Rolan Deep by @s0up1ta // Tumblr post by @/adrenoceptor // JRWI Blood in the Bayou, Episode 3 // Unknown // Richard Silken, A Portrait of Fryderyk // The Illawarra Flame // The Magnus Archives, Episode 78, Cicada Life Cycle, Purdue University // Grandmas House, Body // The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka // Marlena, Julia Bunton // JRWI Blood in the Bayou, Episode 4

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phantomeiko_03 by Shinya Arimoto

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狡朱 Shinya/Akane PROVIDENCE Edit 💑 Tottsuan Kinryu Arimoto ❤ Translation/Traduzione: Densetsu_Sekai no fantasy TV チャネル BGM: Eastern Railroad 1984 (Remix ver) Composer: S.KIYOTAKA&OMEGA『杉山清貴&オメガトライブ』

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_____ Shinya Arimoto

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WEEK THREE_ARTIST RESEARCH_SHINYA ARIMOTO

all photo examples from the collection : Phantom Eiko (2003)

https://www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/85/shinya-arimoto

There is one light source, possibly the camera's flashlight. It seems bright enough, with the exposure and the background details lighting her full body. The juxtaposition of the model posing elegantly and gracefully in a broken office chair surrounded by junk in an abandoned building creates an interesting atmosphere for the photo.

The composition of the photos almost balances between the girl and the pile of trash on the other side. But the light directly shines on the girl, making her stand out naturally.

The photo has some blurryness or grainy texture. This seems natural from the camera movement or the flash, but it could also be from postproduction. I like the quality. It adds to the grunginess and fits the location and story the photo is trying to show.

The first things that stood out to me were the lighting, colours and the angle of the photo. The tilted line creates an interesting composition since you can clearly see the horizon line. The girl's pose as she holds her dress and looks up seems happy, maybe more content or hopeful.

The light is subtle and seems natural, coming from the almost set sun. It has this glowy quality since it's so defused. The colours of deep blues and purples give it a dreamy effect, changing the mood from what could be perceived as a more positive emotion to more solemn or content. the more I look at it I could see an emotion of mourning.

The composition is heavily one-sided. The left has many tones of grey from the light shining on the leaves, and the placement of the branch creates dimension, while the right side is mostly covered in shadows. There is a clear divide between the photos, but this balance may be because of the obvious light and dark comparison.

The light seems natural, like the sun shining from the left, and as the exposure is higher, it clears the background to be completely white in some areas. The high exposure adds to the high contrast since the photo is being taken in such a dark area. Her white dress makes her stand out from the dark grey background as light bounces off her arms and hair.

All-About-Photo.com. “Shinya Arimoto.” All About Photo, 23 Mar. 2024, www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/85/shinya-arimoto.

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Shinya Arimoto: Retrato tibetano (1999)

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Seen:  Tokyo Debugger

Who:   Shinya Arimoto 有元伸也    website

Where: Zen Foto Gallery,  Roppongi, Tokyo (map)

When: January 14 - February 20, 2021 (Open 12-7pm.  Closed Sun. & Mon.)

To me Arimoto’s incredible Tokyo Debugger series of insects and creatures found in Tokyo’s western wooded hills is “new” but I realized I’ve been sharing images of it  since October 2013  ( and in October 2014 , September 2015, and July 2020).  

This 2021 show at Zen Foto is commerates their publication of his Tokyo Debugger book (Available at shashasha). The gallery’s website provides a statement by Arimoto on this series- I think it conveys that Japanese perspective towards nature- one that’s a mixture of animsim and realism. 

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“Many people have questioned me why I would create a group of work focused on bugs, since I have mainly focused on my work on portraits of human beings for more than 20 years. However, I have previously written in the statement of previous work “Tokyo Circulation” that “the dense sprawl of Tokyo is an ecosystem with magnificent circulation”. 

That concept originated from the idea that If honeycombs, a meticulously calculated structure created by bees as a living creature are a part of nature, then cities created by the living creature called human beings should also be a part of nature. I once said that my previous work and this work “belong to the different sides of the same coin”, but for example, just as a piece of blank paper has neither a front or a back, the human world and the bug world are also inseparable. I call them “mushi senpai” (“bug senior”) with all my respect as those little ones have been living on this planet since the dawn of time. 

Also, I named this work “Tokyo Debugger” for two reasons, one with the simple meaning of “searching for bugs in Tokyo” and the other as a metaphor, questioning whether “debugging (removing)” in the history of the earth would happen to the bugs or to the human beings. Perhaps the human world is insignificant compared to the history of the bug seniors, and to them we may be an ephemeral existence that suddenly appears and quietly disappears in their world.”

——Shinya Arimoto

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Shinya Arimoto From "Portrait of Tibet" 1999

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Shinya ARIMOTO

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Shinya Arimoto

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Shinya Arimoto, Tibet

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Shinya Arimoto Exhibition “TIBET” 2019.4.5(fri) – 4.27(sat) @ ZEN FOTO GALLERY

トークイベント & オープニングパーティー 2019年4月6日（土）17時〜20時

◉ トークイベント 2019年4月6日（土）17時〜18時

有元伸也 × 伊野耕一（グラフィックデザイナー）

※ 予約不問・入場無料（参加者多数の場合は立ち見になる可能性があります。予めご了承ください。）

2017年に日本写真協会賞と林忠彦賞を受賞した「TOKYO CIRCULATION」のブックデザインを担当し、今回の展示に合わせて出版する「TIBET」でもタッグを組んだ伊野耕一と有元伸也によるトークイベントを開催いたします。二人が今までに影響を受けた写真集を持ち寄り、その作品の魅力について解説。また本作りにおいてのこだわりなどを話します。トークイベント終了後には持ち寄った貴重な写真集の数々を手にとってご覧いただけます。 ※ 引き続きオープニングパーティーを開催いたしますので、こちらについてもぜひご参加ください。 伊野耕一プロフィール： 1977年東京生まれ、1997年日本デザイナー学院専門学校卒業、2015年INO DESIGNを設立。 Zen Foto Galleryなどが出版する多くの写真集にブックデザイナーとして参加。デザインを手がけた主な写真集に有元伸也「TOKYO CIRCULATION」、梁丞佑「新宿迷子」、土田ヒロミ「自閉空間」などがある。 2018年のThe Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awardsにてデザインを手がけた山本雅紀「我が家」（Zen Foto Gallery）が “First PhotoBook Prize” にノミネートされる。

◉ オープニングパーティー 2019年4月6日（土）18時〜20時（トークイベント終了後）

◉ 新刊写真集「TIBET」を会場内にて先行発売いたします。 有元伸也写真集「TIBET」 判型：H297 × W227 × D24mm 頁数：176頁 製本：ハードカバー・クロス装・表紙シルクスクリーン印刷 価格：6,780円（税込） 出版社：Zen Foto Gallery デザイン：伊野耕一

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有元伸也写真集『ariphoto selection vol.9』（TOTEM POLE PHOTO GALLERY） 　写真家、有元伸也のライフワークともいえる自選シリーズ。ストリートで撮影した写真のほかに、プライベートな関係を思わせるポートレートも。表紙を含めて何点かは過去に発表されている。それも2000年代前半に。というのも、当時、私が編集に関わっていた「季刊クラシックカメラ」という雑誌で有元さんに撮り下ろしてもらった写真が入っているからだ。懐かしい。