Drachentränen (Kanryuji, Okayama)

About Farin Urlaub

Photography has been Farin Urlaub’s medium of choice for exploring the myths and traditions of foreign countries since 1991. In his highly regarded photography book on India and Bhutan, he masterfully reflects on a widely varied and enigmatic culture in images and his detailed journal entries and anecdotes. His style is diverse, and the images of Japan’s holy Buddhist temple gardens in Kyoto with their religious retreats of venerated bamboo forests reveal the tranquility of a landscape beyond the comparatively futuristic cities. In his close-ups he transforms the tender green bamboo sprouts around the Enkou-ji Temple into a fragile thicket of stems that seem to follow their own rigid… Read more