Kenro Izu: The Artist

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Rubin Museum of Art
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The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) is home to a comprehensive collection of art from the Himalayas and surrounding regions.

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Inspirations
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Kenro Izu discusses his inspirations.

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Childhood
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Kenro Izu discusses how his childhood would later influence his photographs.

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Details
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Kenro Izu discusses the prevalence of details in his photographs.

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Kenro Izu: The Process
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Interview with photographer Kenro Izu, in which he discusses his life and his art.

"After years of pilgrimage to sacred landscapes and spiritual monuments, the photographer Kenro Izu has turned his masterful lens to individuals of faith. "Bhutan, the Sacred Within" (November 2, 2007 - February 18, 2008) is his final work in a trilogy on this theme, and the second to be premiered at the Rubin Museum of Art. Izu takes the people of Bhutan and their particular blending of an indigenous religion and Buddhist thought as his subject. The meticulously crafted portraits he has made express the purity of those beliefs and their resonance in the larger world of today."

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00:00:11 My name is Kenro Izu. I’m originally from Japan, 38 years ago and now I’m in New York.

00:00:18 Like, lake, mountains, trees, leaves, that is inspiration to me.

00:00:25 My first experience is photography through microscope, photographing jumps and micro-organs.

00:00:34 When I was in junior high school and high school, when I start to think about being a medical doctor or a medical researcher.

00:00:43 My hero was Louis Pasteur who, if you don’t know who he is, discovered unknown diseases to cure and save lives.

00:00:54 And so I... they were my heros. I was already trying hard to practice same kind of way, as of course as youngsters,

00:01:03 but I was thinking about being someday, be a medical doctor and do such a thing as a profession.

00:01:11 But, i think my interest in observation and documenting detail came from my microscopic time of my photography.

00:01:26 I am still fascinated with details, and always think that small, small, tiny details composed with a big picture.

00:01:36 And when I think of it, it may come from my young days, I was a furious, fascinated with watching in the microscope

00:01:46 and seeing the little micro-organs, and details. That’s now in a larger scale.

00:01:53 It seems to be, thats how I see the subject from the details to making the big pictures.