Temporary Structures

23 photos·€45.00 / photo

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A note from your photographer

Welcome to the viewing room for Temporary Structures, two weeks before it opens to the public. Every plate is here at full size. Digital files are licensed for private display. Open prints of any plate can be ordered here; the signed editions are on my site.

Buy any photo for €45.00, or all 23 for €320.00.

Walls, stairwells and corners, each photographed in the minutes the sun reached it. The plates are paired the way they will hang.

IWalls

Bare concrete wall with a soft rectangle of daylight falling across it — Plate 1 · Kiyosumi, 16:40

Dappled shadows of leaves scattered across a pale concrete wall — Plate 2 · Kiyosumi, 16:55

Soft blurred shadow of tree branches on a warm pink wall — Plate 3 · Pink wall, Nakameguro

Soft bands of light falling diagonally across a dark surface — Plate 4 · Diagonal, Aoyama

IIVolumes

Corner of a pale modernist concrete building against a clear blue sky — Plate 6 · Corner, Roppongi

Pale concrete gallery building of stacked cubic volumes under a blue sky — Plate 7 · Stacked gallery, Ueno

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

Jun’ichirō TanizakiIn Praise of Shadows

Angular metal and glass tower folding against a clear sky — Plate 12 · Tower, Shinjuku

A lone figure in black beside a curved white wall and a shallow pool — Plate 13 · Curved wall, Odaiba

IIIStill lifes

White chrysanthemums in a glass vase against a sunlit ribbed wall — Plate 15 · Chrysanthemums

Still life of pale ceramic vases and a tipped wine glass against olive drapery — Plate 16 · Vessels

A plate on your wall

Order an open print of any plate on fine art paper, shipped to your door. Signed editions are sold through the studio.

IVWorking prints

Thank you for looking slowly.

Aria Chen