LIGHT MOODS SOUTH is based on MikiNobu Komatsu’s book LIGHT MOODS SOUTH.

are from the South Island of New Zealand, and were photographed over a few decades; as a result of his long love affair across the Tasman.

“I developed a passion to capture my emotional response on film when encountering the extraordinary scenes in various rich light in the South Island. My emotional response also culminated in my personal haiku(Japanese poem, in English) to go with each image. All the works for in this exhibition are selected from the book, along with haiku which, I believe, adds another dimension to the work.”

MikiNobu Komatsu 2014

All the photographs exhibited are Cibachrome, direct print from transparency film, that hasn’t gone through any digital process. Cibachrome has not only proven to be the most archival photographic print around

for 50 years but is also considered to be the most beautiful with its depth and richness in colour due to the special layers of dye and not the chemicals. As digital cameras and photographs have become more popular, production of Cibachrome stopped a couple of years ago, hence they have become rare and more precious nowadays.