Photographer Sohei Nishino

By far the most visually and conceptually interesting photography collage work I have seen in this decade, perhaps to date, comes from Sohei Nishino, one of the rising gems of contemporary Japanese photography. Nishino’s extraordinary photographic dioramas, breathtaking in their ambition, vast in scale, map out the artist’s personal impressions of the world’s major cities in several thousand intimate details. Nishino’s collages are not precise geographic recreations, but an imperfect mix of landmarks and iconic features conceived from his personal ‘re-experiencing’ of a city. The medium for him is a ‘…way of looking at the self. Rather than thinking about what I can do with photography,’ and makes photographs in a personal ‘quest’ to see what he can become through photography.

                                         >>>Sohei Nishino