Artist of the day: Artist of the day, November 25-26: Tatsuya Tanaka, Japanese art director, photographer.

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Artist of the day, November 25-26: Tatsuya Tanaka, Japanese art director, photographer.

Tatsuya Tanaka is a Japan-based art director and photographer, who’s been working on a very special project – called ‘Miniature Calendar’ – every single day for the last four years.

Since 2011, Tatsuya Tanaka has been engaged in his ‘miniature calendar‘ — a project which has seen the art director create a pocket-sized scene of everyday life, on a daily basis. what initially started as a means of photographing his collection of diorama dolls amongst familiar settings constructed to scale, has now unfolded into a long-term venture… one that he’s not likely to stop anytime soon

the idea came from a comment on instagram, in which a follower wrote, ‘I want to see the miniature calendar everyday‘. so, while I answered by posting something daily, the thought of the project was too good for me to quit. I find a lot of joy in continuing to make the miniature calendar, I haven’t thought about stopping anymore. in the early days, I created these scenes for the purposes of photographing my collection of diorama dolls, but after a while I found it interesting to express ‘likening one thing to another’; and now I have found my style at present.

He’s now created his miniature scenes every day since 2011, and has even released a book version of his work.

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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Artist of the day, November 25-26: Tatsuya Tanaka, Japanese art director, photographer.

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