AKIRA KAWAHATA
Bio: AKIRA KAWAHATA is a New York-based Japanese visual artist working in expanded photography. His journey began in Nagoya at age seven, capturing sleeper trains under the night sky. Influenced by his grandfather’s post-1945 documentation of Japan’s evolving landscapes, Akira explores simplicity, imperfection, and clarity, merging Japanese classical and Western modernist beauty. Trained under Eikoh Hosoe at Tokyo Polytechnic University, he moved to New York to evolve beyond Japanese aesthetic forms of 'perfection'. He blends traditional and contemporary photographic techniques to explore how image worlds mediate the relationship between natural rhythms, societal structures, and human perception of time.
First Year Exhibition
AKIRA KAWAHATA
SELENO-
2016-1012-2151-1013-0332, 2016
Gelatin silver print
Courtesy of the artist
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AKIRA KAWAHATA
SELENO-
2015-0507-2345-0508-0509, 2015
Gelatin silver print
Courtesy of the artist