While I was shopping in Venice Beach on Sunday afternoon, I think the photo gods were directing my attention to this artist. His book was on a coffee table in a furniture store. The book, entitled "Pool", is a photographic series of empty swimming pools in California. Each pool is represented in a basic typology (very similar to my first round of photographs), and then detail shots ensue. The detail shots differ from pool to pool, depending on what takes importance for each location.
The timing in finding this book was perfect; right before leaving on my trip I went out to shoot a station & ended up taking about 100 detail shots. I got totally swept away, feeling what I haven't felt in far too long- enjoying the shoot.
According to his website (you have to search for the english version), After studying Photography as Contemporary Art at Musashino Art University, Hirano worked as photographer's assistant at Kodansha Publishing. Hirano also opened a gallery in Tokyo, "Number 12 Gallery".
Check out the project in it's entirety, alongside some other work a http://www.tarohirano.com/pool/
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