How To CONCEPTUALIZE Engaging Film Photos // Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto transforms photography into a meditation on time, memory, and perception, using the medium to collapse centuries or capture hours in a single frame. His projects include entire films recorded in one exposure inside historic theaters, hauntingly real diorama “wildlife” scenes, and seascapes that feel timeless and ancestral. Sugimoto has reimagined portraits through wax figures, blurred architecture into pure form, and turned mathematical models and electricity itself into works of art. From Buddha statues lit as they were a millennium ago to color studies rooted in Newton’s prism experiments, his work continually challenges how we see reality and the permanence of art.

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Chapters:
0:00 Overview/Intro
0:57 Who is Hiroshi Sugimoto
1:20 Every Frame in One Painting
3:46 "Wildlife" Photography
5:49 Seascapes
7:13 Portraits
8:54 Architecture/Math
10:52 Lightning Fields
11:52 Sea of Buddha
12:58 Opticks

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