Selected on occasion and/or by random thoughts
“I told Miss O’Keeffe of my ideas. I wanted to photograph clouds to find out what I had learned in 40 years about photography. Through clouds to put down my philosophy of life – to show that my photographs were not due to subject matter – not to special trees, or faces, or interiors, to special privileges – clouds were there for everyone – no tax as yet on them – free.
Alfred Stieglitz, 1923. How I Came to Photograph Clouds
Clouds and Trees: Koyo Tamaki (from 1996 through 2006)
Through my career in photography, clouds and trees were two most difficult subject matters for me to reproduce. It was simply due to technical limitation of sensitive materials and my “still-developing” skill. I collected images of the two subject matters, including those of resembling subject matters. It is a game of imagination, so to speak.
Clouds and Trees: Redefined (from 2016 through 2019)
After 2016, I began practicing digital black and white photography, and soon realized that the image sensor of my camera is excellent in rendering shadows and highlights. I thought it would be interesting to create another version, now in digital.
Koyo Tamaki, photographic artist 