This selection of Asian photography was drawn from the booths at Paris Photo 2023. For further background on how and why this “collection” was formed, and the structure of the resulting slideshow, visit the introductory page (here). This collection consists of 20 works made by Asian photographers between roughly 1930 and the present. Competition was similarly tough to join this group, with well recognized names like Nobuyoshi Araki, Shin Yanigasawa, Shohei Nishino, Eikoh Hosoe, Miho Kajioka, Pixy Liao, and others ultimately left off the team, but the overall “collection” feels somewhat more uneven than the other three, perhaps in terms ... Read more at Collector Daily.

If there is one common truth about photography collectors, it is that we are prisoners of what we have seen. The corollary of this perhaps obvious insight is that by definition, we don’t know much about what we haven’t seen, or even where to look for it – the fact that we might realize that such photography does exist and might be worth tracking down is in many ways the first step toward getting out from underneath our own constraints, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. I see a tremendous number of gallery and museum shows of photography every year, ... Read more at Collector Daily.