29/05/2025
If we do a quick Google search for street, portrait, landscape or any other form of photography we get immediate results with names of master photographers.
For botanical and floral subjects, other than few European master image makers we often get a very limited curated works and names.
I would like to write about
Ogawa Kazumasa, (小川 一眞, September 29, 1860 – September 6, 1929), also known as Ogawa Kazuma or Ogawa Isshin, he was a Japanese photographer, printer and publisher who was a pioneer in photomechanical printing and photography in the Meiji era.
He was one of the founding figures of Japan Photographic Society, while known among the global art circle and Japanese photographic community but often less heard elsewhere.
He’s one of the pioneers of botanical & floral photographic works from the Far East.
One of my absolute favourites.
I hope I could one day curate and make a book about such photographers who’ve shaped the contemporary botanical & floral photographic world with their works.
