Project Methodology
Toshio Shibata says “If we take landscape photography for example, they say there is nowhere in the world where people have not visited. Assuming that is true, but knowing every individual has a different approach to taking photographs, something different will emerge in your photos even if you go to places people have been to before, as long as your ideas about that place are different. So you can always find new ways to take photographs, even of the most commonplace things, without necessarily going to places where humans have never set foot. If you regard photography, the medium, as linked to ideas about creative expression, then I think there is no end to the possibilities”
This I find interesting and true in an anecdotal sense, I often travel with assistants and other photographers, even though we roam the same locations its rare our images are the same, similar often, but never identical. So taking this observation and using the views to create entirely new views, albeit using real world scenes we are amplify Shibatas view.
Construction of the images even though they are relatively simple scenes is complex and extremely time consuming in adition to the creation of the original elements hence what may appear to be a fairly modest target number of ten tableaus. Here we see the sequence and elements used to construct Orange Gate which has actually continued to evolve since.
So the sequence above shows some of the key stages of how the image is constructed, bringing elements in and building others around them to achieve true scale and perspective. The sense of the vernacular to a viewer is important to this project. Whist a location may look foreign to one viewer it should appear every day to someone who resides there.
References:
www.polkamagazine.com/evenement/exposition-cibachromes-de-toshio-shibata/