“To collect photographs is to collect the world,” wrote Susan Sontag in her seminal book 'On Photography' (1977).
@miko_okada_photo visits and revisits, takes and retakes, in order to develop repeated exposures of the same location. These fragments are later strung up in grids; they flicker, fold and dance in the wind, responding to ever-changing seascapes, fields and woodlands. The result is a dreamlike collage of nature’s details. “I developed this process – whereby I revisit a location and capture it again – to hone my perception, to be more aware and get more out of the places I was photographing. This required physical effort and so it made me notice things more, like the subtle incongruencies caused by the sunlight and wind. I’ve created an illusionary effect by erasing the string from which the pictures were hung.”
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