Sohei Nishino

Dear Friends,

This week we present you with our fourth Viewing Room, to close the month of April and round up our Paris Photo New York offering.

I hope you enjoy my personal selection of highlights, which include individual works that resonate with me by Japanese photographers Katsuji Fukuda, Sohei Nishino and Iwao Yamawaki.

Also featured are pieces by Eamonn Doyle and Tim Walker as we take you through the story of each work and the artists' influences; from material as diverse as the maps traditionally used by pilgrims to navigate holy sites to 19th century concave mirrors.

As always I look forward to receiving your comments, queries and questions.

Best wishes,

Michael Hoppen

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Paris Photo New York | Michael's highlights

As we come to the end of 2019 and look back on a very busy year, it is clear that photography continues to provide an extraordinary view of the world. We are very fortunate to work with so many talented and  wonderful artists who each entrust us with their work. Every one of our shows and events have been a pleasure to work on and we so appreciate all the support we have enjoyed from you, our clients and friends.

We have had a very busy few months with Photo London bringing many photography lovers to the fair and to the gallery. I was delighted to have seen so many wonderful new pieces at Photo London - especially the exhibition curated by Hans Kraus. Photography, up until only a few years ago, was a physics and chemistry process. Whilst the chemistry has almost disappeared or at least the choices photographers had have gone, the physics is still there, and now the computer and phone have also joined the range of tools available to photographers. But I still believe that the wonders of traditional process are well worth understanding in order to learn the full spectrum of how an image was or could be made...

Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce that Sohei Nishino is the winner of this years Mast Foundation grant for Photography. The award supports research on the image of industry and work, giving voice to new generations of artists.

Sohei Nishino was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet award through his ongoing Diorama Maps project. The maps are reimaginings of the worlds great cities and consist of thousands of analogue photographs. Find out more about them here. Two of his most popular Diorama Maps (London & San Francisco) are currently on display.

We begin 2017 with momentous world events surrounding us, and it seems churlish to talk about what our small gallery in London has planned for you for the year ahead, but having said that, I sincerely believe that in our own small way, we can all individually make a difference by what we do and how we behave. The world will continue to turn and we collectively can all make a difference by striving for excellence in doing what is right and continuing to create good diverse and interesting events around our daily lives. There are lots of positive things happening in the world of photography.

Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce a new Diorama Map by Japanese artist Sohei Nishino of San Francisco.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to announce this event in association with Photo London. Simon Baker, Curator, International Art (Photography), Tate, and Michael Hoppen, Owner and Founder of Michael Hoppen Gallery, will discuss the photographic creativity and innovation emerging from contemporary Japanese photo artists.

We are delighted to offer a series of works by artist Sohei Nishino, 'Day Drawings'. Famous for his large photo collages of cities, his work is found in some of the worlds most prestigious art collections.

Here Sohei reveals how he makes these beautiful 'Day Drawings'...

We have been busy in Japan again and have some wonderful new work to show to you in London this year.
 
We are so proud to be able to bring Solitude of Ravens to our gallery. It has been a quest of mine for the past six years to exhibit this body of work.  And now finally it is hanging in our gallery and hope you will make the journey and come to see it.

We have found that many more museums across Europe and America are also enjoying the fruits of Japanese photographers and our belief is still that it is not only some of the most interesting work to look at and collect, but it is of such quality and so beautifully produced, it still amazes us as to why it has taken so long to be embraced.
 

One of the artists represented at the Michael Hoppen Gallery booth at this years Zona Maco art fair in Mexico.

Booth E205

3 - 7 FEB 2016

Western collectors’ newfound curiosity about the Provoke artists follows a concerted campaign by a handful of players that demonstrates both how changing tastes alter markets, and how markets can change tastes. 

[article written by Noelle Bodick]

We invite you to explore some of the wonderful details hidden amongst his Diorama Maps and encourage you to discover others for yourself via his artist page.