Encounters

Encounters is Hutchinson’s new project that situates itself in Victorian High Plains. Like many mountain ranges, the region entices curiosity and adventure, a land where seasonal trends work in conjunction with seasonal activities, and the cycle, until recently, remained uninterrupted.

His approach began with photographic investigations, a land previously observed from a close distance and one he assumed knowledge of. In the early phases of this project, his trajectory quickly changed; in fieldwork, reading the environment through a Eurocentric seasonal calendar proved ineffective, and the encounters with the macro and micro environment exposed a new unseen landscape.

Building for a Typhoon

Building for a typhoon is the sequel to Rohan Hutchinson's celebrated and out-of-print first publication, 'A brief stroll whilst inspecting architecture.' The Photographic works, created with support by iconic European camera company Arca Swiss, were captured before and after a typhoon that shut Tokyo down in 2019. They document architectural structures and their standing amidst weather variance.

The interest in the body of work lies in how a city's architectural infrastructure presents cultural, economic, and geographic contrasts. The publication's design embraces these contrasts, shifting the historic and modern spaces into an engaging contempoprary book setting that focuses on the layering of space and materials within a metropolis and its representation in publication format.

This sequel is limited to 140 copies produced; each copy comes with a collectible metallic print, signed and numbered. Publication comes encased between two plastic sheets, that serve as a frame for the metallic print.

North Eastern Estates XL

The North Eastern Estates studies how geographic location alters the built environment.

Photographed over three winters within Hokkaido, Japan, 2010-12, the work researches constraints in building parameters and how these alter the aesthetics and longevity of permanent structures placed into the environment.

The completed series demonstrates the annual transformation of the industrial, residential, and rural built communities.

The publication is in XL format, which allows the work to showcase the nuances within the structures while allowing the visuals to breathe within the page, presenting an exhibition feel within the publication space. The pictorial index informs readers of the photographic works' accurate dimensions and geographic locations.

Mountain Views form My Archive

Post Hiroshige

Post Hiroshige is a body of work that continues my interest into Japanese Architecture and representation of space both within artwork and publication form.

The body of work draws inspiration from Historic Japanese Ukiyo-Artist Hiroshige Utagawa. The interest lie in how Hiroshige broke away with traditional mathematical formulas of the time, in-return created a new way of seeing the natural and built landscape.

Colour used within the publication and artworks is the pigment data from Hiroshige Utagawa’s work  “Kinryuzan Temple Akasaka c 1830” (Provided by The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia).

Post Hiroshige consists of a series artworks, a set of 3 of hand made concertina books, a limited edition trade publication, along with a series of 3 pop-up cards made in collaboration with Paris based paper artist Nicolas Codron.