Photography as art consists of more than just capturing beauty or reality or individual moments in our moving world. Photography as art is also technical ingenuity and creativity.
As with all art, those who redefine or recreate photography are the notable practitioners — or artists.
Naoki Honjo, 30, is a Japanese photographer who has recreated and redefined photography. And he had done it without Photoshop or a $30,000 HD digital camera. Honjo employs a large format camera (also known as a 4 x 5 camera, denoting the dimensions — in inches — of the negative) and a technique known as “tilt-shift” photography to capture reality that appears, well, fake.
The tilt-shift technique places a narrow band of focus on the subject, blurring the majority of the captured environment and resulting in what the mind perceives as a photo of a miniature set.
The gallery below includes some of Honjo’s pieces from Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. These are photographs of actual locations. (Notice the photographs only contain a narrow strip of focused area across the piece.)
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