ETHER
-
PrizeSilver in Analog/Nature
-
PhotographerKeiko Takamura, Japan
-
Instagram
“ETHER” is a monochrome piece that imagines the luminous atmosphere within a greenhouse—a space suspended between nature and artifice. Captured on film and printed manually in the darkroom on fiber-based paper, the work explores the unseen qualities of air: its texture, moisture, and light. The analog method is essential to her practice, allowing subtle shifts in tone and depth that echo the delicate essence of the subject.
She decided to submit a Lith print after learning that the award included an analog photography category.
While working in architecture, Keiko studied photography at various workshops. She takes photographs with a film camera, develops them and prints them on fiber-based paper in the darkroom.
She is interested in the expression of water, the source of all life, and hopes to restore moisture to plants by watering them in the darkroom. Therefore, printing in the darkroom on fiber-based paper is a necessary process in the creation of her works.
Monochrome photography allows her to express light and shadow more vividly, leaving room for viewers to engage their imagination.
Awards Awards
Honorable Mention, International photography awards 2025
Honorable Mention, Mono Visions photography awards 2025
Selected and to be Exhibited Photo in Glasgow Gallery of Photography 2025
Selected and to be Exhibited Photo in Urban Photo Awards 2025
Selected and Exhibited Photo in FOTOZOFIO 2024
Art Gallery M84 Customer Award Winner 2022
Selected and Exhibited Photo in Art Sacré 2021
Selected and Exhibited Photo in Art Sacré 2019
Selected and Exhibited Photo in Asia photo 2019
The Photographic Society of Japan, The Month of Photography TOKYO
Sponsor's Prize 2018
Main exhibitions
2025 Selected and to be Exhibited Photo in Glasgow Gallery of Photography
2025 Selected and to be Exhibited Photo in Trieste Photo Days festival”
2025 Kiyosato Museum Photographic Arts
(Kiyosato, Japan/ Outdoor Group Photo Exhibition)
2025 2025 SKM PHOTO（Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, Taipei City）
2024 FOTOZOFIO OFFLINE 2024 ARLES café japone （Arles, France/ slide show）
2024 「Rippling light」 Jam Photo Gallery （Meguro, Tokyo/ solo exhibition）
2024 “Urban buoyancy” FOTOZOFIO (Kyoto Station Wall, Kyoto)
2023 “Urban buoyancy” Gallery Solaris （Osaka / solo exhibition)
2023 "Urban buoyancy" Place M (Shinjuku Gyoenmae, Tokyo / solo exhibition)
2021 Art Sacré St Nicholas Church （Compiègne, France）
2021 "ETHER 2021" space2*3 (Nihonbashi, Tokyo / solo exhibition)
2020 "Floating Humidity" Place M (Shinjuku Gyoenmae, Tokyo / solo exhibition)
2019 Art Sacré Saint-Pierre Church (Saint-Lys, France)
Participated in many other group exhibitions.
