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Aihara Masaaki photo exhibition "Short Black & Flat White"

3 June 2011 - 16 June 2011

Having photographed Australian landscapes for 23 years, the photographer Aihara Masaaki has developed an eye for the character of the neighbourhoods in which he has lived.

Having already shown in Sendai, Seoul and Tokyo, and opening in Fukuoka this month, the ‘Short Black & Flat White’ exhibition is a collection of monochrome portraits of people’s lives in Australia. It shows us another side to Aihara’s perspective of Australia in the off-season.

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on the 11 March, outside of aid-drives and material donations, Aihara hopes to contribute his photographs of smiling Australians to the recovery effort.  He sees these photographs of levity and vitality as an uplifting alternative to the grave magnitude of the devastation. Through his snapshot and monochrome images, Aihara seeks to convey the energy in the moment of being alive.

Aihara Masaaki

Aihara Masaaki, born in Tokyo in 1958, graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism, Faculty of Law, Nihon University, Tokyo. Aihara has photographed extensively the landscapes of Hokkaido (the northern island of Japan), the landscapes along to the Tokaido road. After 8 years at SOGEI advertising in Tokyo, Aihara set out on a solo photographic trip by motorcycle on the great Australian continent, covering more than 150,000 km of the Outback, which he visits 2 or 3 times a year.

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