Entropix by Taisuke Koyama (March 28, 2010) 
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Introduction by Marc Feustel
Entropix is a series of visual fragments, seemingly haphazard abstractions that still retain a recognisable link to their subject (paint peeling, pink fabric, sheet metal, condensation behind a pane of plexiglass). Koyama is a street photographer, collecting images as he wanders around the city of Tokyo on bright, sunny days, but his work is far removed from the tropes of ‘classic’ street photography. His images are highly detailed, feeling like microscopic, molecular studies of the colours, textures and surfaces of the city.
Marc Feustel is an independent curator, writer and blogger based in Paris. A specialist in Japanese photography, he is the author of Japan: a self-portrait, photographs 1945-1964 (Flammarion, 2004) and the creative director of Studio Equis (www.studioequis.net), an organisation devoted to broadening access to the visual arts between different cultures, with a focus on the relationship between Asia and the West. He blogs at Weblink: eyecurious.com
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‘Entropix’ is a contraction of “entropy”, “picture” and “pixel”.
I regard the city “Tokyo” that changes at high speed as a living thing which is dynamically renewed.
This is a series of my photographs of the surface of artificial material and a subtle phenomenon by using a macro lens on sunny days in Tokyo.
The various artificial materials that form a city cannot escape from the increase of entropy, just like living things that are always changing at a molecular level.
Sometimes the dirty rust of the walls look like human cells to me, when they are vivid and animated in the sunlight.
I walk in Tokyo, cutting out the fragments of the metabolizing city, and I make images that can be described as “organic abstract photography”.
Taisuke Koyama (1978) lives and works in .
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