"Aperture Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the first Aperture Portfolio Prize. Out of 814 artists from across the United States and around the world who submitted their work, the judges awarded the top prize to San Francisco-area photographer Jessamyn Lovell for her project Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions. In addition, four runners-up were selected: Brooklyn-based Ian Baguskas, Cynthia Greig of Detroit, New York-based Israeli artist Shai Kremer, and Tomoyuki Sakaguchi of Tokyo. Each artist's winning portfolio is available at www.aperture.org (click on "Aperture Prize")."
Aperture Foundation | 2007 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-up | Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
"HOME" was selected as Runner-up of 2007 Aperture Portfolio Prize.
Thank you for the opportunity to catch someone's attention, worldwide access.
And Thank you for the nice editorial statement.
"Editorial Statement On overnight bike explorations of the Tokyo suburb of Tama where he lives, photographer Tomoyuki Sakaguchi creates a waking dream. Making long exposures with his digital camera, Sakaguchi transforms the tidiness of suburbia into a colorful dreamscape where cars seem to be the only inhabitants, and even they are asleep.Tama is the location of Japan's largest planned residential development, opened in 1971 on the heels of the Japanese post-war economic boom. In contemporary art and literature such planned communities often come to represent the notion of the soulless uniformity of the commuting class. Sakaguchi's Tama is a more nuanced place, a place of beauty and magic and even whimsy. Still, there is an eerie evocation of surveillance inherent in these nocturnal images, made while Tama's residents sleep unawares, which reminds us that any sense of privacy, individuality or autonomy we have in modern culture may well be illusory. --JL"
