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Movement_17; Tasman Sea

In Movement_17; Tasman Sea, Mizuho Nishioka shows that photography doesn't always need full human control. 

Instead of holding the camera and taking a quick shot, she places her equipment—like tripods and cameras—into the natural landscape and lets the environment influence the final image. The Tasman Sea, a wild and constantly moving body of water between Australia and New Zealand, becomes a kind of artistic co-creator. The image forms slowly over time, not in one single moment. This approach questions who really "owns" an image of nature, and whether it is fair to capture nature without its permission. By stepping back and allowing technology to work on its own, Nishioka creates a quiet collaboration between human, machine, and landscape. The work shows how technology and nature are deeply connected—sometimes in conflict, sometimes in harmony, but never fully in control of each other.

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