SCANNING JAPAN: Whitney Vosburgh
Installation Views

About Scanning Japan

Irene Imfeld

Sofie Siegmann

John Watson

Whitney Vosburgh lived in Tokyo for one fantastical year as a young boy. Photographing has helped him understand wabi sabi. He uses this idea to connect parts of his life: young and old, east and west, head and heart. Wabi sabi is about the Zen of the minor and the hidden, the tentative and the ephemeral—things so subtle and evanescent, they are invisible to day-to-day eyes. To experience this, he slows down and patiently looks very closely. In this altered state of consciousness, there is an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace. www.whitneyvosburgh.com