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Sugimoto as scientist
To be a good photographer you have to be a scientist as well.
Hiroshi Sugimoto on his latest project, “Lightning Fields.” Sugimoto uses a Van de Graaff generator (capable of creating 400,000 volts) to charge a metal ball that he uses to shock large sheets of film. [Lightning Fields | Modern Painter ]
Above: “Lightning Fields 013” (2006). Gelatin silver print, 59 x 47 in.
Below: Self-portrait by Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2008.
