Naohiro Maeda

Statement

Naohiro Maeda is a lens-based artist from Japan. Through his practice, he explores the inconsistency and uncertainty of his memory, identity, and sense of belonging as an immigrant in the states and a foreigner in Germany. He collects raw data during commutes in a vehicle with a DSLR and makes reconstructed landscape images with Photoshop. He retouched and collaged landscape images with the help of the intelligence of the software, he creates multiple vanishing points in a plate and meditates on recollection and representation of the photos.

GlogauAIR Project

In this project, “Guided Collages” I explored how generative art could be created using the raw data from SLR cameras and Photoshop functions, which many photographers use today. I set up various algorithms to allow the intelligence within Photoshop to collage the raw data and output the images. While leaving it up to their intelligence to decide how to seam and retouch the images, I selected the inputs and adjusted the programs so they could create a collage that a human could appreciate as a landscape photograph collages.

Photography

CV Summary

EDUCATION

• 2018 Fine Art Photography (Honors), New England School of Photography, Waltham, MA
• 2001 B.A. (Environmental Information), Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan

AWARD

• 2023 FRESH 2023 Finalist, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• 2021 Japan Photo Award

SOLO EXHIBITION

• 2018 Passage, Space Place, Nizhny Tagil, Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

• 2023 ABSTRACT 2023, New York Center for Photographic Art
• 2022 JAPAN PHOTO AWARD + INTUITION 2022, Gallery 9.5, Kyoto, Japan
• 2021 The Autumn 2021 Show, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA
• 2019 25th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
• 2018 COLLAGE(2), A R E A (SoWa), Boston, MA

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