Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect, he was born in 1948 in Tokyo. He took his earliest photographs in high school, photographing film footage of Audrey Hepburn as it played in a movie theater. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm ‘New Material Research Laboratory’. Sugimoto has spoken of his work as an expression of ‘time exposed’, or photographs serving as a time capsule for a series of events in time. His work also focuses on transience of life, and the conflict between life and death. His work includes photographs of waxwork-museum figures, drive-in theaters, and Buddhist sculptures, all of which similarly blur distinctions between the real and the fictive. Sugimoto is also deeply influenced by the writings and works of Marcel Duchamp, as well as the Dadaist and Surrealist movements as a whole.

David Prentice

David Prentice was a English born painted who died aged 77, had an unusual trajectory as an artist. In the 1960s, when he was one of the founders of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, his work was hard-edged, abstract, close to the Op art of a period when young artists and architects were full of ideas for new beginnings. David’s art was about new forms, his hero Piet Mondrian.

His subject for the majority of his work was the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire he knew these hills very well as he took many walks over these hills in which he always had his sketchpad in hand. The forms of the hills were a constant, the weather constantly changing. He painted with the concern for structure and surface that had characterized his earlier work. The watercolors, often done on the spot, were more specific but the paintings done in the studio were as carefully constructed as ever.
His range of landscapes expanded to include dramatic cityscapes of London, The river themes, and the landscape of Skye, Lake District and the Welsh mountains.

I think that there is a clear connection between the works of David Practise and Hiroshi Sugimoto , they both take more of an abstract approach when looking and a landscape. In both of their works there is an absence of any man made structure, do it makes their works have a lack of identification to them, although we are able to guess where the work is based off, as to where the artist live and work. However their works do have a graet contrast between them, Prentice paints with a wide range of colour and the vibrancy of the colour is a noticeable feature of his work. Whereas the lack of colours in Hiroshi Sugimoto work is what makes his work more interesting a re in forces the sense of life and death in his work.