Hiroshi Sugimoto's Photographs of Electricity

Photo: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photograher who takes pictures of electrical charges. His exhibit "Lightning Fields" is currently on display at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. Sugimoto uses a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator to directly apply electricity to film. The above image is entitled "Lightning Fields 128, 2008."

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Previously on Neatorama: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Henry VIII Photos