Hiroshi Sugimoto

Wesely similarly uses long exposure photography to compress extraordinary spans of time into single images, exploring how photography can make time visible in a deeply philosophical way.

Kawauchi shares Sugimoto's meditative and minimalist sensibility in photography, investigating the ephemeral and the elemental through serene, carefully composed images that carry quiet philosophical weight.

Ruff engages in rigorous conceptual investigations into the nature of photographic representation and perception, using large format prints to question what images can and cannot reveal about reality.

Sugimoto has cited Duchamp as a major intellectual influence, drawing on his conceptual approach to art making and his questioning of what constitutes a readymade or reproduced image.

Man Ray's experimental and conceptual use of photography as a medium for surrealist and philosophical inquiry resonated deeply with Sugimoto's own investigations into the boundaries of photographic representation.

Weston's mastery of large format gelatin silver print photography and his pursuit of pure form and timeless natural subjects laid important groundwork for Sugimoto's own approach to landscape and seascape imagery.

Almond's Fullmoon series of long exposure nocturnal landscape photographs draws directly on the tradition Sugimoto helped establish, using extended time to transform familiar landscapes into transcendent, luminous images.