Title: 'Denali Lane, Snow Garden', 2015
Print Size: 14x14 inches Silver Gelatin Darkroom Print
Print Edition: 1/10 edition, hand-signed by the artist
Collection: FotoFilmic Collection
Exhibition: FOTOFILMIC17 WINTER SHORTLIST SHOW (PULP Gallery, Vancouver)
Photographer Interview: FOTOFILMIC17 Online ShortList Feature
Ships as: Print only
Ryota Kaji Kajita is originally from Japan, completed his MFA degree in photography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, worked at the University of Alaska Museum of the North as a collection photographer, and taught at the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Japan. His photographs have been exhibited in the Japan Professional Photographers Society Exhibition (2011), Alaska’s Rarefied Light (2012, 2013 & 2015), The Aesthetica Art Prize (2012 & 2013), Aperture Summer Open (2014), Geo-Cosmos Content Contest (2014) of The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation and other shows. His photography series of “Ice Formation” is featured in the magazine “Photo Technique” (November/December 2012) and is represented by Susan Spiritus Gallery in Nrewport Beach, California. His work became part of the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affaires and The Alaska Contemporary Art Bank in 2013. He was selected for Blue Sky 2013 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers Program (“Drawers”) of the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts and won the Grand Prize in ONWARD Compe ’13 International Photography Competition, the Student Abstract Category Award in 2013 American Aperture Awards (AX3) and Juror’s Selection / Director’s Honorable Mention / Livebooks Website Award in Natural World 2014 Nation Wide Juried Photography Competition. He has traveled to more than 50 remote Alaska villages by a two-seat, light aircraft and snowmobile for scientific research. He loves travelling, backpacking and cross-country skiing with a medium format film camera and always responds to the beauty of nature.
