Christophe Guye Galerie is pleased to present HDR nature, a solo online exhibition by Yoshinori Mizutani. The series marks a decisive moment within the artist’s ongoing investigation into perception, technology and the photographic image. Working with High Dynamic Range imaging, Mizutani deliberately pushes the process beyond its corrective promise. By destabilising the capture itself and allowing multiple exposures to collide, the images abandon descriptive clarity in favour of heightened intensity, chromatic shifts and perceptual ambiguity. Nature appears transformed, hovering between recognition and abstraction, between physical environment and visual event.
Rather than using HDR to optimise reality, Mizutani exposes its fragility. Light, texture and movement dissolve into layered structures, revealing a landscape in constant flux. The works resist passive viewing and reward sustained attention, proposing photography not as documentation but as a generative act. As Lyle Rexer has noted in relation to experimental photographic practices, “the process itself offers opportunities for formal and material expression.” In HDR nature, this process becomes visible, turning technological error into poetic strategy.
Born in Fukui, Japan, Yoshinori Mizutani lives and works in Tokyo. He is a Foam Talent recipient and was selected for LensCulture Emerging Talents Top 50. His work has received multiple awards, including jury prizes at the Tokyo Frontline Photo Award and the Japan Photo Award, as well as recognition from the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts. Mizutani has exhibited internationally in public and institutional contexts, including Fotografiska Shanghai, the Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, Hangar Photo Art Center Brussels, and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. His work is held in major public and corporate collections such as the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Hermès Collection of Contemporary Photographs in Paris, and the amana collection in Tokyo.
HDR nature is presented as an online exhibition. Display prints from the exhibition can be viewed at the gallery.
