Private Gallery

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.

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Digital download€45.00 per photo

The full-resolution file. Download it here after payment. The link is also sent to your email.

All 23 photos for €320.00, you save €715.00.

Prints and wall art€45

Printed by a professional lab and shipped to you. You choose the product, size and crop. Shipping is added at checkout.

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

Dark wall split by a soft glow of light between two black planes

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

High contrast study of stacked white blocks emerging from deep shadow

Black and white study of a spiral ramp beneath a glass pyramid roof

Faceted grey wall panels forming a geometric starburst

Zigzag facade of dark panels and white triangles filling the frame

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

Orange louvred facade beneath a flat turquoise sky

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 single monstera leaf in a round glass vase against white

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