Sohei Nishino

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Sohei Nishino is a Japanese photographer known for his city dioramas. These works combine contact sheet photography with a whimsical illustrative style drawing maps that is quite unique.

[@phyleneamuso1051]

Every show I see inspires me with the untapped breadth of possibility in photographic arts. Your knowledge of both classical and outsider brilliance is the most complete education I could want. With each broadcast my aesthetic awareness grows and deepens. I appreciate this above all else; your humble and genuine wish to be of help to all of us. Mission accomplished, thanks!

[@SlavaVeres]

Hailing from 2023 😊 Mr. Forbes, your early videos about true photography are the best. Wish you continued making videos about amazing photographers like this.

[@halo3269]

It is nice to someone doing something different with photography, and long may that continue, diorama concept has been around a long while now. However Nishino is producing prints that reproduce on such an infinite scale, you can see how inspirational it can be to a child.

[@10RLARA]

i love these types of episodes, please keep them coming

[@pbandj7764]

I saw this in person (Saatchi Gallery???) and liken them to those tonal collage digital images of faces or an extension of street view in google maps or stylized tourist maps of cities BUT it is so much more. It is pre-conceived and from an vision created in Nishino's mind and I think that makes it art. When I saw it, I thought no web site, no photo or poster of it could or would do it justice. You got it right when you said that you have to see it at different distances or scales...so IMHO impossible to capture on video, book or poster. In that way, it is like installation art but with some permanence. Really brilliant and unique. You get the sense of the vision and the craftsmanship that goes into it that is akin to the Mona Lisa. I really thought that at the time I was looking at them. Brilliant and mind expanding. Yes, Hockneyish but taken to two orders of magnitude beyond! Ted - it is 2018 and I just discovered you. Love the videos.

[@luizkazuotakei]

Thanks for sharing these wonderful photos/stories with us!

[@EnZoXPlanet]

Thank you so much! i always watch your podcasts and with this one you've helped me so much, im taking photography at A level and i was struggling to find a creative but not completely abstract collage photographer to do a study on, he fits the bill like a treat! thank you once again!

[@majopgalli]

Just amazing!!! I would love to see his work at some point!! he pushes photography into a different realm / love it!

[@AlexHemarios]

Thanks Ted, that's a really really nice episode. Welcome back to talking about ART!

[@Kleinbiology]

Great episode Ted! There is always something new to do.

[@AManWhoWasntThere]

Thank you so much for introducing me to this artist! He even did a diorama of my hometown Berlin, I love it!

[@roarkshsha]

Nice to see someone's work with an additional human element added to photography. Very appreciate the labor-intensive finished piece. Good episode

[@puupipo]

I think Nishino's work is a perfect example of "Don't be better, be different." As interesting as street - and architectural photography can be, it has been done so well and so many times in the past that it is very difficult to stand out nowadays. The individual pictures in Nishino's dioramas might not be any better than what you are capable of capturing, but he is presenting them in an original manner and the diorama is something much more than the sum of its parts.

[@ojuice1111]

Great video Ted; I hadn't heard of Sohei Nishino before, his work is eye opening.

[@95PW]

I will see you guys next time, LATA! haha Great video as always, thank you so much for teaching people about these amazing artists, you really deserve a bigger audience.

[@tristanharmsen7796]

I actually gasped when I realized how he made his dioramas.

[@ShawnBrezny]

Wow, thanks for sharing the discovery of this artist.

[@MrZrazio]

He's incredible. Awesome video, very enjoyable. Good work.

[@Reuben1024]

an interesting photographer and a different take on imagemaking the feel of the image is that of a caricature of the scene. Thanks as always for your work bringing us these informative videos. Definitely my favourite area with the emphasis on the art and craft of the practitioner.

[@lucdevos9185]

Thanks for this video. It must be interesting to see this work in real life; just on the computer these images remind me of medieval drawings/etches of a city ... but how wonderfully creative !

[@drawcomics]

Awesome to see that work and his process. What people sometimes don't understand about art is that although talent and skill have a lot to do with it about 90% is hard work and dedication, and the will to do it. Really cool.

[@ChrisHelms]

Holy crap Nishino's work was amazing! What I found interesting, is that the perspective of the individual photographs seemed like they are mostly taken from above instead of just from street level. I want to know how he got access to shoot from above a bunch of even some skyscrapers! Just incredible work. Thanks for sharing, Ted!

[@peshrawable]

its nice,thank you,do it again and again and again

[@kyjawelburn4467]

Very useful video for joinery artist research thankyou

[@stardude3396]

WOW! Fantastic! I'd like to try that with my home town Vienna, but in color!

[@ablanco5]

Ted, brilliant episode! I miss these types of shows--you do them really well More please!

[@gamesessions]

Reminds me a lot of Hockney's photo collage work, but certainly evolves it. I would love a large print of something like this on my wall :)

[@raysville7256]

Before Sohei Nishino was born David Hockney begun to explore a kind of photography that may be the source of Nishino's work. Having not seriously referenced Hockney is curious.

[@victorwhitby4401]

Great vid

[@InfiniteLytt]

Like elevensixty said, Sohei is like "so-hey" but softer on the "-ey."

[@DarkAngelEU]

I saw his work at the Unseen photo expo in Amsterdam. Very creative and shocked no one ever tried this before. I met Kawauchi too, she's very nice :)

[@sludgeoning]

Wow. very much an illustrative quality about it. Oh, and Ted, the "men with hats" is the Western Wall/Wailing Wall.

[@Linkmat97]

I saw this guy's work here in Colombia about 6 months ago, they brought about 7 or 8 pieces to an exhibition.

[@socialhippy5888]

You never sound like an idiot, Sir.

[@KingGameReview]

how do you get the money to do something like that? I'd love to do a project like this... but I have to work

[@patio87]

This is insane.

[@AliZaidi]

I officially announce my retirement from photography!! After seeing this - man I feel like I'm NOTHING !!! :O

[@elevensixty2434]

Sohei sounds like"so hey" Nishino is like you say

[@boteng]

Thanks for the episode Ted, its pronounced So-hey by the way.

[@Dale_Willetts]

seconded =)

[@fuumin2510]

your pronunciation is fine. nothing wrong with it

[@PhinioxGlade]

Amazing. I will not be trying this at all

[@kennethchanSG]

so-hey-e Ni-she-noh

[@Kaz41g]

Your pronunciation of Nishino is correct.

[@Acquavallo]

I'm sure it takes a lot of work and all, but it isn't beautiful or poignant... He's more of a craftsman than an artist. I don't really like his work. But this was a great episode, and I love these artist showcases!

[@Vini2142BR]

9:38 "So, thats sushi", i saw what you did there.

[@tokyoinpics9346]

Not sure if anyone ever gave you the correct pronunciation but it is "Sou-hay Ni-shi-no".

[@mmatamorosj]

nice hair....

[@spaetensonaten]

Ted, it is pronounced "Saw-hay Knee-shee-gnaw". Great episode!

[@Kaz41g]

(So-hey) Nishino.

[@NowWeAre6]

So-hey Nish(i)no the second i can be faster than the rest

[@leicaman100]

Photography ? ..not for me. However really clever slant on what Hockney was doing in the 70's

[@rogerrtewwr4723]

meh

[@BRUNO-cj9wd]

I’m not going to go on a rant, but stop apologizing about your pronunciation of peoples names