THE SNIPER PAUSED SO HE COULD WIPE HIS BROW

THE SNIPER PAUSED SO HE COULD WIPE HIS BROW – Sean Lotman, an artist originally from Los Angeles, moved to Kyoto in 2003 after living in Tokyo for a while.

He draws his inspiration from narrative fiction and the Technicolor films of the 1930s-1950s in which the colors appear unreal.

The very particular, sometimes psychedelic atmosphere of his images is linked to the technique of dodge and burn (which consists of lightening and darkening different areas of the image).

The artist develops his images himself in the darkroom, experimenting to the extreme to imprint his own subjective reality on his photographs.

The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow collects 96 images made with a Diana camera and 20 short poems. The story spans 15 years of travel.