Sohei Nishino: How the Diorama Map was made

The Telegraph, January 28, 2011

Watch as Sohei Nishino, exhibiting at Michael Hoppen this month, creates his fantastical map of London.

 

Sohei Nishino is one of the rising gems of contemporary Japanese photography. Discovered in 2008 by Michael Hoppen, 28 year old Nishino’s extraordinary photographic dioramas, monumental in size, map out the artist’s personal impressions of the world’s major cities in several thousand intimate details.