Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto reflects on his body of work | 7.30

Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has created some of the most celebrated images in modern art. The largest exhibition of his works is now on at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
As a child in Tokyo in the late '50s, Sugimoto began experimenting with a Mamiya 6. He left a conventional life in Japan for the intense artistic freedoms of the US.
His breakthrough pictures were taken at the Museum of Natural History in New York in the 1970s, shooting dioramas of animals to strange effect. Since then, decades of technical experiments with photography have produced a body of work unlike any other: the product of an artistic mind testing the outer edges of reality.
He spoke to 7.30's Sarah Ferguson.
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