Sougetu Hata

Hata's work focuses on traces of time that emerge within everyday landscapes and acts of movement, continuously exploring the relationship between seeing and existence through photography. 

Born in Osaka Prefecture and raised in Nara Prefecture, Hata graduated from the Department of Photography, Faculty of Arts, Osaka University of Arts. After more than a decade of creative activity, the artist suspended public exhibitions—later, upon encountering Roland Barthes’s concept of the “punctum,” resumed presenting work.

Currently, Hata develops a distinctive body of work that fuses traditional motifs with contemporary perspectives. In his latest series, the artist undertakes an experiment by juxtaposing silver‑halide grain with digital pixel blocks within a single frame—an innovative approach that has been hailed for charting new frontiers in photographic expression.