How do you continually surprise and shock when your work has become so familiar? What can you say with a photograph that hasn’t been said before? Will making things bigger make them better? These questions niggle at the back of the mind while visiting Shinoyama Kishin’s current show. “The people by Kishin” at Tokyo Opera City Gallery is one person’s constantly re-adjusting view of Japan that succeeds in being as confounding as it is at times unexpected.
Surprisingly familiar photography
Stuart Munro, The Japan Times, December 6, 2012