KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY is pleased to announce the opening of Shinichiro Uchikura’s Solo Exhibition, “The Floating Portrait” on Saturday, July 9th, 2022. 

Shinichiro Uchikura, the second-generation owner of a photo studio, has been showing portrait photographs since the beginning of his career. Uchikura's portraits, which capture even the atmosphere of the ordinary people who are their subjects, have a distinctive presence that sets them apart from existing portrait photography. His portrait works have gained recognition through such awards as the Canon New Cosmos of Photography Honorable Mention (selected by Minoru Shimizu) and the publication of his photo book My Portrait (2020) from Akaaka Art Publishing. 

In this exhibition, “The Floating Portrait,” he will present a group of previously unpublished portraits that have undergone a further evolution.

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In these photographs, taken from a height of about 3 meters, the subjects all have their eyes closed, and the unique atmosphere that each have had since birth seems to be scooped even more purely. In his own statement, Uchikura says that he created the photographs while feeling “as if their presence was floating right in front of me” in “a dimension where even the boundary between life and death has almost disappeared.” The presence of each individual emerging from the tranquil world certainly feels like a mysterious presence emanating from the body.

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We cordially welcome all to this opportunity to view Uchikura's new world of portrait photography, in which each image has a unique texture and draws the viewer into a mysterious world, filled with a unique spirit that only photography can capture.