Mitsutaka Tsuryu is a Japanese photographer and visual artist working primarily in black and white.
His work focuses on urban spaces, architectural lines, light and shadow, and traces of human presence. In his ongoing series Presence and Absence, he explores silence, memory, distance, and the subtle boundary between presence and absence within the city.
Rather than documenting places in a descriptive way, Tsuryu is drawn to traces of movement, moments that have passed, and the quiet atmosphere held within ordinary spaces. Through restrained compositions and the use of light and shadow, his photographs reflect on memory, solitude, and the passage of time.
His work has been presented in Japan and Europe. A monograph of Presence and Absence is currently in preparation with GPC Éditions in France.
He is open to exhibitions, publications, commissioned projects, and curatorial collaborations internationally.
Installation visualization — selected works from Presence and Absence
