Striped Camellias by Ogawa Kazumasa Photography-Japanese and vivid colour palette are

and vivid colour palette are reproduced with exceptional sharpness and clarity

and tonal shifts all reproduced with crisp

using the conventions of type-led poster design to deliver something with genuine visual presence

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Striped Camellias by Ogawa Kazumasa Photography-Japanese and vivid colour palette areOgawa Kazumasa photographed striped camellias with the eye of a naturalist and the sensibility of an artist. Each bloom is rendered in exquisite detail the irregular stripe patterns on the petals appear almost painted, yet are entirely botanical. The image sits within the tradition of Meiji era Japanese botanical photography, where Western technique was absorbed and refined into something distinctly Japanese: composed, unhurried, precise. Cool, even