Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese born photographer, who first began taking interest during his time in highschool. Although Sugimoto studied Politics and Sociology at university level in 1970, he decided to ratrain in 1974 and recieved a BFA in Fine Arts at the Arts Centre College of Design.

Sugimoto describes his work as an expression of time exposed photographs which act as a time capsule for a series of events in time.

Many of Sugimotos photos lack the physical detail which would allow the photos objects to be distinguished, and instead strongly focuses on the lighting and textures. Sugimotos photos do not follow a certain pattern, and his images do not specify the subjects in which we are looking at,suggesting that he follows the surrealist movement.

Sugimoto produces a vast amount of his images using a large 8×10 format camera on a long exposure, creating the blurred effect that some of his images have.