Epiphany

Japanese photographer Shimpei Yamagami presents “Epiphany,” a new body of work published to coincide with Yamagami’s participation in the group Exhibition “Leap Before You Look” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Both in black-and-white and in color, Yamagami cycles through concrete, isolated subjects and abstract, pattern-like motifs. There is an air of profoundness in his images, and a sense of some greater truth that may be reached through photography (perhaps only through photography). As Yamagami writes in his afterword, “What were supposed to be static pictures become photographs that are alive and moving.”