Helsinki ¨C For 60 years, 85-year-old photographer Daido Moriyama has been influencing photographers around the world with his prolific output of gritty, urban imagery and commitment to sharing his work via self-publishing.
¡°Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective,¡± currently exhibiting in Helsinki at The Finnish Museum of Photography¡¯s K1 gallery in the Kamp Galleria shopping center, attempts to encapsulate all six decades with 200 works, two video installations and some of the photographer¡¯s rare photobooks and magazines. In doing so, it succeeds in creating a cohesive but somewhat crowded overview of Moriyama¡¯s career for his first-ever retrospective in Finland.
¡°What we wanted to do in this small space is have as many images available as we could,¡± explains K1¡¯s curator, Paivio Maurice Omwami, adding that he and his team worked with Brazilian curator Thyago Nogueira of Instituto Moreira Salles to adapt the sprawling retrospective for the gallery¡¯s limited subterranean space in downtown Helsinki after the show¡¯s four-month run at in London. ¡°The pace is quite intense at moments, but it allows the audience to say, ¡®OK, I¡¯ll pop back in another time to sit with all this work again.¡¯¡±
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