Hiroyoshi Kushino

Hiroyoshi Kushino is a photographer born in Tokyo in 2001 and currently based in the city. He is working on an ongoing photographic series titled Landscapes Without People.

His work focuses on landscapes that contain structures and places shaped by human activity. Utility poles, transmission towers, wind turbines, rice fields, and other elements connected to everyday life and society appear within the landscape without the presence of people. Rather than viewing them solely in terms of their original functions or purposes, Kushino sees them as manifestations of human activity that have become part of the landscape itself.

Even when no people are visible, a sense of human presence can emerge through these structures and places, allowing viewers to bring their own emotions and associations to the images. Although each structure or place has a particular function, within the landscape it is not defined by that function alone.

Kushino is drawn to a balance in which neither nature nor man-made structures dominate. Within this equilibrium, the landscape can feel inanimate yet distinctly human, quiet yet charged with a subtle tension. His work explores this duality, as well as the ambiguity inherent in photography.

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