Through the photography which describes what exists in the depth of heart and could be surely seen, Ryuji Taira expresses the essential theme “nature of lives”.

The series of his works sublimed into semipermanent existences by execution of platinum palladium print on Ganpi (Japanese handmade paper), have been mostly presented in the United States: awarded quite a number of prizes both foreign and domestic, and entered into public collections.

At the fotofever (Paris, France) from 11th to 13th November as a first full-dress presentation toward european areas, his works got incomparable admiration as well.

And finally, his exhibition which can be considered as “a return in triumph” is coming in Wada Garou.

Introduced with an exhibition in 2004 in NYC, “Vicissitudes” series describes a nature of “being” and a conception of continuity in the shapes of the seeds, plants and flowers that he has closely nursed, with the alluring frail beauty of these ephemeral elements. This series could be compared to grasping a big “mountain” as a whole.

And then, in the “Bright Shadows series”, Taira goes into a deep forest of this “mountain” and express the relations between “time” and “space”, “being” and his own roots, through his thought on lights and shadows.