Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948 in Tokyo) is one of the most fascinating art photographers of our age. He has been working on his cycles of photographs for more than 30 years. The minimalist black-and-white pictures are studies in silence, clarity and emptiness. Sugimoto, who has been living in the USA since 1970, was lastingly influenced during his days as an art student by Minimal Art and Conceptual Art. In his work, he unites Far Eastern aesthetics with artistic influences deriving from modern Western art.
