- Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1948.  He currently lives and works in both New York and Tokyo.

- Hiroshi Sugimoto’s atelier in New York is similar to traditional artists’ working spaces: by facing north, direct sunlight is avoided and the light quality is stabilized.  Some of Sugimoto’s photographs are shot there; most of them however are taken in other locations.

- The artist uses a 19th century style large-format camera.

- The blurring effect in Sugimoto’s architecture series and in “Joe” originate from his unconventional use of infinity – as opposed the focus on a subject in the forefront, this implies focusing on the farthest reaches of the background. While the furthest a traditional lens can focus on is infinity, his large format camera can be forced to double the “infinity-effect”, which is rendered in the blurring of the photograph.

- For his work, the artist prefers traditional fiber-base gelatin-silver prints, a technique developed in the 1870s, which has become the most usual means of making black and white prints from negatives. The traditional prints are papers coated with a layer of gelatin which contains light sensitive silver salts.  Sugimoto is very involved in the craft of hand developing his prints.

- Sugimoto generally produces limited editions. In the case of the large photographs, he produces five copies, and for the smaller prints, he’ll make twenty five copies.  The large formats are signed and labeled on the back, whereas the small ones are embossed and signed on the mount.