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Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1957, Aki Lumi is a contemporary photographer living and working in Paris. His work combines photography, drawing and drafting to derive meaning from the manmade world. Over the past fifteen years Lumi has been building a reputation for innovation within the medium of photography. Through manipulation and intervention Lumi's works question the experience of landscape, obstructing the view and distorting the senses. In his attempts to subvert traditional notions of perspective, Lumi delves into the subconscious, exploring the possibilities of the constructed world and its relationship to subjective experience. His series, The Garden, seamlessly combines analogue and digital platforms to travel through the sublime to hint at mystery and secret. Sensorially dense, memory combines with dream to produce a sense of passage into Lumi's interior world. Similar notions are at play in the work Traceryscape in which Lumi delicately draws lines onto to the photographs, pointing out the hidden connections between space, place and the viewer. This sensitive and considered approach underpins Lumi's work, revealing exuberance towards nature and its possibilities. Lumi has exhibited in Japan, France and China at galleries including Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai; Galerie 21, Tokyo; and Espace Van Gogh, Arles. The Photographers 2015 at Beetles+Huxley is the first time Lumi's work has been shown in the United Kingdom. Aki Lumi Born 1957