Comedy of Double Meaning
Alvise D’Ambrosi as Capitano (Silhouette)
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10" size; Digital inkjet print for 32x32" size
Size: 10x10", 32x32"
Edition: 10, 3
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10" size; Digital inkjet print for 32x32" size
Size: 10x10", 32x32"
Edition: 10, 3
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10" size; Digital inkjet print for 32x32" size
Size: 10x10", 32x32"
Edition: 10, 3
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Michele Modesto Casarin as Arlecchino
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10" size; Digital inkjet print for 32x32" size
Size: 10x10", 32x32"
Edition: 10, 3
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Paolo Bisetto Trevisin as Innamorato
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10" size; Digital inkjet print for 32x32" size
Size: 10x10", 32x32"
Edition: 10, 3
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10" size; Digital inkjet print for 32x32" size
Size: 10x10", 32x32" (A/P available only)
Edition: 10, 3
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10" size
Size: 10x10", 32x32" (sold out)
Edition: 10; only two remain
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Paolo Bisetto Trevisin with Morte mask
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10" size; Digital inkjet print for 32x32" size
Size: 10x10", 32x32"
Edition: 10, 3
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Marta Marchi as Strega – Silhouette
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10"size; Digital inkjet for the 32x32" size
Sizes: 8x10", 32x32"
Edition: Edition of 10, 3
Created for the series, Venice in Peril
Date: 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph for the 10x10"; Digital inkjet for the 32x32"
Sizes: 10x10", 32x32"
Edition: Edition of 10, 3
Dunes
Ena Bunraku
Findings
El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 14x14", 32x32"
Edition: There is one print in the 14x14" size that is available.
Edition: There is one print in the 32x32" size, an A/P that is available.
Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 2000
Size: 10x10", 14x14", 32x32"
Edition: 30, 15, 3 + A/P
Bulldog and its Owner, New Orleans
Date: 2001
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 2005
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Church Flower, San Lazaro Psychiatric Hospital, Quito, Ecuador
Date:
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Shinobazu Bentendo, Tokyo, Japan
Date: 2005
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 2000
Size: 10x10", 32x32"
Edition: 30, 3 + A/P
The edition has been sold out!
Ideology in Paradise
Billboard for Kim II Sung’s Birthday Celebration
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Bar, Kaesong Folk Hotel, N.Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Dancer Dressed as Fisherman, Pyongyang, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Lim Chun Sii, Schoolchildren’s Palace, Pyongyang, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Painter, Moranbong Park, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Kim Song Mi & Kim Yun Kyong, Pyongyang Schoolchildren’s Palace, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date; 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Female Army Band, Grand Monument on Mansu Hill
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Music Band, Pyongyang School, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
TV, Kaesong Folk Hotel, Pyongyang, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Unfinished Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Students and their Teacher, Mangyongdae, N. Korea
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Kim II Sung’s Birthday, Kim II Sung Square, N. Korea
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Globe, Songdown International Children’s Camp
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2007
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Tongmyong Hotel, Wonsan, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment print
Date: 2007
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Subway Station, Pyongyang, N. Korea
Medium: Archival Pigment prints
Date: 2006
Size: 20x20", 32x32"
Edition: 15, 8
Boy Soldier, Army Day, Pyongyang, N. Korea
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2007
Size: 20x20" and 32x 32"
Edition: 15, 8
Li Min Gyong, Pyongyang Schoolchildren’s Palace, N. Korea
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2007
Size: 20x20", 32x 32"
Edition: 15, 8
Singers, Mangyondas Schoolchildren’s Palace, N. Korea
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2007
Size: 20" x 20", 32" x 32"
Edition: 15, 8
Songdowon International Children’s Camp, N. Korea
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2007
Size: 20" x 20", 32" x 32"
Edition: 15, 8
Kabuki
Natsuki Tukamoto, Matsuo Kabuki
Date: 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Azusa Tukamoto as Osome Matsuo Kabuki
Date: 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Marina Ema & Kazusa Ito, Matsuo Kabuki
Date: 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Hirokazu Nishijima, Matsuo Kabuki
Date: 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Jun Masuda a Oyanagi, Matsuo Kabuki
Date: 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Ryo Ueguchi as Sendo, Matsuo Kabuki
Date: 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
Portraits of Ourselves
Loiawannai, Samburu Woman, Kenya
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size and edition: 58x58" #1/1 has been sold
Size and edition: 32x32" 3 with 2 A/P
Cerbando Godoy, Otavalo, Ecuador
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 2001
Size: 10x10", 14x14"
Edition: 30, 15
BIOGRAPHY
Hiroshi Watanabe was born in Sapporo, Japan. He graduated from Department of Photography, College of Art, at Nihon University. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation and became involved in the production of TV commercials, eventually working as a producer. He later established his own production company. He received an MBA degree from UCLA Business School in 1993. In 1995 his passion for photography rekindled, and since then he has traveled worldwide extensively, photographing what he finds intriguing at that moment and place. In 2000 he closed the production company in order to devote himself to the art and became a full time photographer. Since then, his work has been exhibited and published in many parts of the world, mostly in US, Japan, and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, George Eastman House, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and San Jose Museum of Art.
Monographs
“I See Angels Every Day”, Mado-sha, Japan 2007
“Findings”, Photolucida, USA 2007
“Ideology in Paradise”, Mado-sha, Japan 2008
“Suo Sarumawashi”, photo-eye Editions, USA 2009
“Love Point”, Toseisha, Japan 2010
“99 Findings”, “ARTIFACTS”, Hibiku, Japan 2012
