@takashiarai

Born in 1978 in Kawasaki, based in Kawasaki and Berlin. Arai has mastered the daguerreotype, one of the earliest photographic techniques, and uses it as his medium as micro-monuments: image-objects that vividly convey to the viewer the sensation of engaging with events/subjects in a way that transcends time and space. His recent interdisciplinary activities include film production, writing, and collaborative research. Arai has received numerous awards, including the 41st Kimura Ihei Photography Award in 2016 and the Grand Prize in the Short Film Award at the 72nd Salerno International Film Festival in 2018. His monographs include "Hyaku no Taiyō / Hyaku no Kagami - Syashin to Kioku no Migiwa (One Hundred Suns / One Hundred Mirrors - On the Shore of Photography and Memory)" (Iwanami Shoten, to be published July 2023), "MONUMENTS" (PGI, 2015), and others.