Shiho Kito lives and works in Surrey, UK and Tokyo, Japan. Shiho studied English literature before specialising photography under renowned Japanese photographer Risaku Suzuki.

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from the series of ‘pikari’ , 2008 - onward

'pikari' is an onomatopoeia in Japanese, which means 'shining', 'glittering', or 'flashing'. The idea for 'pikari' came from the words, 'star-navigation'. It is the ancient technique of Polynesian sailors. They used to use it to find their location and direction guided only by the natural environment, for example, stars. Since leaving my home country, I have used lights in cities to find a place, like the Polynesian sailors did with stars, with a large-format camera in 20 - 80 minute exposure.

C-type hand prints 33 x 45 in. (83.8 x 114.3 cm) and 10 x 12 in. (25.4 x 30.4 cm)

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