Takeshi shikama biography
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Shikama, Takeshi
Takeshi Shikama, Tokyo, Japan
Born:1948 in Tokyo, Japan.
Education: Aoyamagakuin University, 1968-1970.
In 2002 Takeshi Shikama turned to photography after a career in the field of design.
Takeshi shikama biography
He was drawn to forests as the subject for his large format camera. It was the “invisible world”, hidden behind the “visible” that he worked to capture. His first photo collection was published in 2007 as Mori no Hida—Silent Respiration of Forests.
This project became the launch of a lifetime endeavor. In 2008, he created a new series, Utsuroi-Evanescence, consisting of four parts: Forest, Field, Lotus, and Garden.
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In 2009, he added the fifth part, Landscape. The following year, in 2010, while working on the Evanescenc seriese, he started working with Japanese hand made Gampi paper for his platinum Palladium printing. The detail involved to create these prints; each requiring hand-coating the emulsion on the paper and contact printing the negative; reflects the intimacy an