Daisuke Tanaka won the 15th “1_WALL” Photography Competition with “elephant sea,” works that included filmed shots of an aged elephant. The judges praised Tanaka for the way he carefully seeks to capture the invisible “breathing” of his subjects, and for his outstanding sense of how to express what cannot be expressed in words.

Tanaka approaches his photographic subjects with sincerity, aiming to capture something that is invisible to the eye. And the works born from the act of continuously photographing the instants he perceives from his subjects appeal to our fundamental human sensibilities. The photos and films containing the experiences of the artist have the power to overwhelm the viewer.

This exhibition will showcase Tanaka’s film works of an elephant that he showed at the time he garnered the Grand Prize, complemented by newly shot photographic works.