The big picture: Gueorgui Pinkhassov’s shadow play in a 90s Tokyo hotel The Russian Magnum photographer’s work celebrates the abstract side of vision, with a vivid exchange of form, light and pattern In an exchange with a student in 2015, the Russian photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov said that one goal of taking pictures was to “ transform everything into form ”. His experience, he suggested, showed that the more “irresponsibly” a photographer approached the high seriousness of getting a good picture, the more likely they were to succeed. He referenced something tha… |