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THIS SERIES OF IMAGES was taken over several years and is the result of a subconscious effort: that is, I never actually sought to create a body of work in which patterns and shapes were a common denominator. That all changed one day in 2003 when I was editing my work to build a new portfolio. In looking over my many images, I realized I’d been utilizing patterns on a regular basis for both my professional and personal work. I had developed a photographic style without even knowing it.
Presented at the FCCJ is a selection of what I feel are my best pattern images. They span over two decades with many being taken while on assignment for such publications as National Geographic, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Time, The New York Times and the JAL in-flight magazine. Several are images that never made it to print and are being shown for the first time.
American photojournalist Torin Boyd has been based out of Tokyo since 1986. He has worked in over twenty countries and throughout the 1990s was a contract photographer for U.S. News and World Report. He has co- authored two books on Japanese photographic history.
