RENOkada
I photograph the pause between things — the breath before a performance, the last hour of a city, the room after everyone has left.
Enter the workSix studies in light.
All works are available as limited silver gelatin prints. Enquiries for editions and commissions are welcome.
The pause is the photograph.
I am interested in what happens just before and just after the thing we came to see.
Ren Okada is a photographer working between Tokyo and New York. Trained in architecture in Kyoto, he came to photography through a long study of empty buildings and the people who leave them.
His work has appeared in Aperture, The New Yorker and IMA. He shoots slowly, prints in the darkroom, and believes a photograph should feel like a memory you did not know you had.
clients
- Aesop
- Hermès
- Kvadrat
- The New Yorker
- Nike
- Tekla
Let's make
something quiet.
studio@renokada.com Write to me ↗
Represented by Neighbour Gallery, New York.
Commissions and print enquiries for 2027 are now open.
New York 40.7128° N