TSUKIYAMA SHOTA
Optical double star
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TSUKIYAMA SHOTA
Optical double star
This work consists of a photograph of a glass window taken with an ultra-telephoto lens, over which two stars have been placed. The stars are based on the astronomical concept of an “optical double star”—a pair of stars that appear close together from Earth due to their alignment along the same line of sight, despite being at vastly different distances. To the naked eye, they appear as a single star, but optical instruments like telescopes reveal that they are in fact two separate stars.
Similarly, the photograph of the glass window—captured through an ultra-telephoto lens—reveals reflections and a sense of scale that are not visible to the naked eye. Both the double stars and the window image share a commonality: they present a perception that differs from unaided human vision.
By combining these two elements, the work seeks to visualize how advances in optical technology expand our ability to perceive and understand the world.
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TSUKIYAMA SHOTA
Photographer, Born in 1997 in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and work in Japan.graduated from Nippon Photography Institute in 2019. His interest in seeing has led him to develop photographic works, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional, that deal with the vision newly acquired through tools (cameras) and through the roles, knowledge, and physicality of his own position in the world. In recent years, based on the affinity between sniping and photography, he has been creating works that attempt to acquire new visual images by incorporating the actions of snipers and observers toward their targets, such as observation, reconnaissance, research, tactics, disguise, and camouflage, in the process before and after shooting.
Notable exhibitions include “ENCOUNTERS” (ANB TOKYO, Tokyo, 2020), “constellation #02” (rin art association, Takasaki, 2021), “P.O.N.D” (PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, 2021), “EENT” (POST-FAKE projects, Tokyo, 2023), “ATAMI ART GRANT 2023” (ATAMIX, Atami, 2023) “NEW ANXIETIES” (N/A & FF Seoul, Seoul, 2025).