花见时分，想起了Lee Friedlander的樱花作品。他与日本樱花的邂逅始于1977年的春天，那时，整个日本被樱花覆盖着，这样的场景令他流连忘返。从那以后，Lee Friedlander每每去日本，总是与樱花不期而遇。于是诞生了Cherry Blossom Time in Japan系列。即便影像中只留有黑与白，但完美的拍摄角度，光影和景深的独特运用，展现出一种纯粹而悠远的禅意。

The legendary American photographer Lee Friedlander first went to Japan in 1977 and found the whole country ablaze with blossom. He went again in 1979, 1981 and 1984, always at cherry-blossom time. And he knew that, Japan was always abloom. Friedlander’s images are evocative of Japanese pen-and-ink scroll paintings. Tree branches become calligraphy strokes.

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来自英国的Michael Kenna被誉为当代最优秀和最具影响力的风景摄影师之一，以拍摄黑白作品闻名。除凭着他个人对环境的视野和触感外，还利用极长时间的曝光技术，令镜头能聚焦更多的光线和更广阔的景深，彻底呈现出人眼在实景中看不见的细节。简洁的构图充满着神秘灵性之感，配合对比鲜明的黑白色调，别具震撼力。继上年的“黄山”影展后，今月Michael Kenna将重临香港，在Plum Blossoms画廊展出从出道至今在日本所拍摄的一系列作品。1987年首次踏足日本的他，即被这岛国迷人而轻盈的风景所深深吸引，及后便不停往来以菲林记录着当地宁静而优雅的文化面貌，足迹遍布全国。

“我被物件在人类生活作息过后弥漫于这些地方的余韵所吸引，它们怎样互动、如何于视觉上并置，对我来说十分有趣。日本一直是体验这种好奇心的最完美环境。”Michael 独爱捕捉人造物件与天然环境之间的微妙关系，如诗人咏诗般供予观者无尽的联想空间，也渗透出对大自然及传统历史的尊重。值得留意是主办单位会将卖出相片 “Torii, Study 2, Biwa Lake, Honshu, Japan, 2007” 的所有收益捐助予日本强震及海啸救灾基金，展期由即日起至至十一月十日。（via）

Plum Blossoms Gallery is most excited to announce the return of world-renowned landscape photographer Michael Kenna this October, with new additions to his most famous “Japan” photography series. Officiating at the exhibition opening ceremony will be The Honorable Yuji Kumamaru, Consul-General of Japan in Hong Kong. Widely considered to be the foremost landscape photographer of his generation, Kenna’s work has often been described as enigmatic, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful – qualities which almost perfectly coincide with Japan’s landscape. Kenna first stepped foot on this island nation in 1987 and was utterly seduced by this mysterious and wonderfully alluring set of lands. He returned over the years to travel throughout the country, capturing the serenity of Japan, an elegance of her culture and a reverence for her tradition. Kenna’s Japanese landscapes are weightless and transient. They are marked by a minimal quality that seeks to merely suggest rather than to describe, and in that sense they reflect the philosophy of Japanese Haiku poetry, where “a few elements may evoke a world of imagination,” as suggested by Kenna himself. Throughout his work, Kenna explores the interplay of man-made objects and the natural landscape, how human beings leave their marks on the places they inhabit.

“I am attracted both to the visual juxtapositions and interactions, and also to the lingering atmospheres that pervade these places when normal activities are not happening.  Japan has been a perfect environment to exercise this curiosity.” The intensity of the drama is further heightened by his use of long exposures, as film is able to accumulate light and record events that our eyes are incapable of seeing. “The results are deliciously unpredictable,” says Kenna. Limited copies of the expanded edition of the book Michael Kenna – In Japan, published by RAM Tokyo, will also be available for sale at the Gallery.

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摄影师Mariam Sitchinava今年21岁，来自格鲁吉亚。没有受过专业训练，但是她镜头下的女孩都有着一股摄人心魄的美，相信，这来自于一种女人天生的直觉。

Mariam Sitchinava is a 21 years old amateur photographer, based in Georgia.

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“我曾经的理想之一，是在实验室做一个操作员，为来做实验的学生们配试剂，装瓶，或者制作石蜡切片标本。日复一日，沉默的简单重复劳动中包含着最大的诗意。拍照片给我带来的享受与此类似，那过程就如同为世界制作切片标本，对于标本的价值我很少去关心，它们单个来看是脆弱、虚假、不值一提的，但我知道，有朝一日这些标本能够重组出一个过去的世界，无数的‘虚假’生出了真实。面对世界我常常觉得是无力而不可得的，拍摄则让我觉得能用穷举的方式去尽可能接近这个世界。‘即鹿无虞，惟入于林中’，这便是我对摄影的全部想法吧。”——陈思然

来自香蕉鱼书店及其背后的香蕉鱼影像书籍出版社A Perfect Book的夏天制作，陈思然的个人摄影作品集。

Bananafish Books is very proud to announce it’s first publication, A r i a, a new photobook by Chen Siran which is also the first book of the photographer. Chen Siran is a female photographer currently living and working in the city of Beijing.

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摄影师Matthew Brandt 1982年出生于洛杉矶。他曾经为做广告摄影师的父亲担任助理，学习过绘画，也为建筑摄影师Robert Polidori工作过两年。在Lakes & Reservoir系列中，他为加州的很多湖和水库拍摄了“肖像”，待照片印出来后，他将它们分别浸泡在所拍摄的不同湖水/水中。照片产生了这样奇妙效果的同时，也被赋予了其应属的DNA，活了起来。

Matthew Brandt was born in Los Angeles in 1982. His father is a California-based advertising photographer. He worked with his father as a photo-assistant in his early adolescence. As a young man, Brandt briefly abandoned photography turning to painting. While studying at Cooper Union in New York he fully embraced photography as his medium of choice. Following college, Brandt worked for two years for architectural photographer Robert Polidori. Matthew took snapshots of various lakes and reservoirs in California and soaked them in water from each corresponding location. The results are pretty random and, in my opinion, all beautiful. What he ends up with are sort of “personalized” portraits of these lakes and reservoirs.

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森善之（Yoshiyuki Mori）1960年出生于神户市，毕业于大阪写真专门学校，1991年成立了森善之写真事务所。他的主业是广告摄影，大多服务于饮料和药品品牌。然而，在他的个人作品中，也可以看出他对于日常事物敏锐的洞察力。

Yoshiyuki Mori is a photographer who has produced advertising work for pharmaceutical companies and beverage manufacturers. His work is shot through with a sharp sense of the zeitgeist as well as a human touch that makes a deep, lasting connection with the viewer.

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人造和自然混为一谈，真实与虚伪的界限越发模糊，这种常态存在于街头、餐馆、商场、家中……美国摄影师Jeremiah Ariaz的“反思风景”系列，或许会让你感觉很熟悉吧！

Jeremiah Ariaz’s “Reconsidering Landscape” investigates our changing relationship with nature. These large-scale color photographs merge the natural and man-made environments to create a new landscape. Public wall paintings most often commemorate something that has passed memorializing the subject.

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