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For
over 30 years, Japanese-born photographer Kenro Izu's moving
platinum/palladium print have offered glimpses into the spiritually sublime. His images
transcend documentation, commanding stillness and contemplation over what he has witnessed through the lens of a 14x20"
Deardorff view camera. A visionary artist whose impact has reached beyond
the canon, Izu is best known for his exquisite still lives and breathtaking
images of ancient sacred sites. He has exhibited internationally at such
major venues as the Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan, the Museum
of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, and the Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC.
Izu's work has been published in numerous books including his monograph, Sacred
Places published by Arena.
During
a series of photography trips to Cambodia Angkor monuments, Izu was deeply
moved by his encounters with children disfigured by landmines and in
desperate need of medical care. Marrying artistic pursuit with humanitarian
concern, in 1995 Izu founded the not-for-profit organization, Friends
Without A Border and built Angkor Hospital for Children in 1999.
In
2002 Izu pushed boundaries again, developing a technique for printing
cyanotype over platinum/palladium, the results of which were presented in
2004 in his latest body of work, entitled Blue.
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