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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Born February 23, 1948 · Tokyo, Japan (age 78)

Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, Sugimoto Hiroshi; born 23 February 1948) is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He reportedly took his earliest photographs in high school, photographing film footage of Audrey Hepburn as it played in a movie theater. In 1970, Sugimoto stud…

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Camera Man Blues

Camera Man Blues · 2026

Camera Man Blues

MovieDocumentary

Hiroshi Sugimoto recalls his earliest memory of seeing the sea through the windows of a train, before transforming himself into a “human camera.” With shutters fitted over his eyes, he walks through three minutes of darkness—equivalent, in his temporal metaphor, to some 15,000 years of human history—before opening them for a single second of exposure.

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Camera Man Blues

Camera Man Blues · 2026

Camera Man Blues

MovieDocumentary

Hiroshi Sugimoto recalls his earliest memory of seeing the sea through the windows of a train, before transforming himself into a “human camera.” With shutters fitted over his eyes, he walks through three minutes of darkness—equivalent, in his temporal metaphor, to some 15,000 years of human history—before opening them for a single second of exposure.

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