Shintaro Sato

Shintaro Sato had his first major solo exhibition at age 29, proving there's still hope for most of us. After leaving Kyodo News in 2001 where he worked as a cameraman, he has been steadily producing amazing photographs that document the lush late hours in Japan's capitol, Tokyo. Taken from the fire escapes of buildings near the cities edge, little else can be said about them except they are dope, and that a ticket to the whaling capitol of the world is only 1500 bux return via Webjet.

The light in his photographs has all the properties of a hot sheet of steel dividing your brain butter, leaving you CTRL+C-ing anything he's ever done directly into My Pictures via your Myspace Page. He shoots on a 4x5 large format camera, but I have no idea how much editing goes into these. What i do know though is that one of his photos has been my desktop background for most of this year and i still fail to tire of its illness.

Shintaro Sato