For 60 years, 85-year-old photographer Daido Moriyama has influenced photographers around the world with his production of raw, urban images and his dedication to sharing his work through self-publishing.
‘Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective’, currently on display in Helsinki at the K1 gallery of the Finnish Museum of Photography in the Kamp Galleria shopping center, attempts to summarize all six decades with 200 works, two video installations and some of the rare photo books and magazines from the photographer. In doing so, it succeeds in creating a coherent but somewhat busy overview of Moriyama’s career for his very first retrospective in Finland.
“What we wanted to do in this small space is to have as many images available as possible,” explains K1 curator Paivio Maurice Omwami, adding that he and his team collaborated with Brazilian curator Thyago Nogueira of Instituto Moreira Salles to create the expansive to be adjusted retrospectively. for the limited underground space of the gallery in central Helsinki after the four-month exhibition The photo gallery in London. “The pace is quite intense at times, but it gives the audience a chance to say, ‘Okay, I’ll come back another time and work on all this work again.’”
