Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in 1948 in Japan, and divides his time between Tokyo and New York City. Primarily a photographer since the 1970s, Sugimoto more recently added performing arts production and architecture to his multidisciplinary practice, which deals with history and temporal existence by investigating themes of time, empiricism, and metaphysics. Grounded in technical mastery of the classical photographic tradition, his work has explored the ways photography can record traces of invisible but elemental forces.
