Izima Kaoru - Super Likeee

I'm a really big fan of the BBC 3 TV show, Japanorama. On a recent issue focusing on Horror and Japan being the scariest and most haunted place in the world, the work of Kaoru Izima was featured.

His wok reminds me a lot of Joel Meyerowitz (who recently published a book of photos documenting and photographing the work done at ground zero after 9/11) and also of Andreas Gursky. All there have use colour amazingly well, completely saturated.

Izima's shift of fashion and celebrity photography, photographing the subject from the point of view of the dead subjects soul as it rises from the body and looks back on its self. I find it really fascinating and engaging way to look at something in a different way.

I'll have to try and find the interview of him on Japanorma somewhere on the Internet.

EDIT: Here is a link for the interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJF9f1gbqM