Silent snow dunes

Hiroike is inspired by Japanese painting, which has been done in Japan since ancient times. He expresses Japanese landscapes, with their uniquely complex topography and climate and four distinct seasons, in the medium of photography with a unique aesthetic sense of "wabi" and "sabi" that is uniquely Japanese. Among his works, his black-and-white photographs inspired by "Suiboku-ga" (ink painting) are the ultimate in minimalism. He chooses landscapes with minimalistic beauty, expresses the form of the subject and the relationship between light and shadow by removing color, and further emphasizes minimalism with long exposures and other techniques.

This photo is a landscape of the Tottori Sand Dunes in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. On this day, a huge amount of snow fell on the sand dunes, the first time in several years, and I drove to the Tottori Sand Dunes at night. There was a blizzard at night, but by dawn the snow had stopped, the wind had stopped, and the morning light reflected on the clouds softly illuminated the hill called ``Umanose"(Horse Back)'. There were quiet and mysterious snowy sand dunes.