Statement

Faces

To what extent do the rights to a work of art prevail?
For example, to what extent are parts of one's work remembered?
This work utilizes pre-existing snapshots by photographers and scans only interstitial portions of them, namely the faces of people outside of the focus of the image or beyond the confines of the photographer's awareness.
While these people did exist at such places and times, turning into a photograph render them vague.
This is a re-interrogation of consciousness, which by its nature, is fleeting.
It is a set of portraits of incomplete faces.

Profile

Osamu Sakamoto

Born in 1988 in Nagano and started photography in 2008. Began working at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in 2011 and in 2016, he joined a photography studio in Tokyo. He became freelance in 2019.

Exhibitions:
• Solo exhibition "Photography" at ovo in Nakameguro, Tokyo in 2010.
• Kyoji Takahashi and Hiroyasu Yamauchi Workshop Photo Exhibition Contacute @ Jimbocho Bohemian's Gallery in 2018.
• Solo Exhibition Extension @ Asagaya VOID in 2018.

Jury selection

The many different textures that come out when details are not fully recovered in the halftone could make this very interesting.

Links

• HP : https://www.osamusakamoto.com/
  Instagram :＠osamu_sakamoto_