Hiroshi Sugimato

 Hiroshi Sugimato is a Japanese photographer and architect from Taito City, Tokyo, Japan. He is 73 years old and was born on February 23rd, 1948. 

I chose this picture because it exemplifies Sugimato's two passions, photography and architecture. He chose a very neat angle. It appears as though he simply aimed the camera at a ceiling and took this picture, but it's clear that he put thought into the angle. He could have stood center in the room and took this same image and it would have been significantly less interesting. This angle provides somewhere for the eye to glide to. The line structure invites the audience to keep looking. The lighting in this image is also impressive. The shadowy lower half draws the eye up to the bright top, which highlights the designs on the wall along the way. I find his editing choice to make the image black and white interesting because I wonder if this ceiling has color. I feel as though I would have liked to see the way this ceiling was painted, I think that in this instance, that could have added to the image. Other than that, I think that Sugimato portrayed the architecture very well with this image.