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“Photography has become a more and more important part in my life and my creative process. I’m a very visual music composer. I love painting, especially the works of El Greco, Miquel Barcelo, Van Gogh, Hiroshige, Velasquez, Bacon and Chu Ta. But I’m even more sensitive to photography. I took my first lesson in photography when I was seven. My father gave me my first camera a year later. As a teenager, I loved the old Hollywood portraits by- Irving Penn or George Hurrell, grew up with images by Pierre & Gilles on posters, magazines or record covers, devoured books published by John Kobal, and then discovered the works of Robert Frank, Herb Ritts, Weegee, William Klein, Tina Modotti, Herbert List, Paul Strand or Shoji Ueda, and more recently, Steven Klein, Kishin Shinoyama, Jack Pierson or Cindy Sherman… among many others!
I can’t go anywhere without having my camera with me.
Lately this part of my work has started to grow in importance, with the music videos that I have directed, and also a few photo exhibitions. I’m now working on a few projects that will encompass photography, visual arts and music.”
Visit Aaken’s photo website:
A A K E N | Photographies in an artist’s life
Exhibitions
HUSH…!!!
A nomadic exhibition accross Taiwan, in partnership with photographer Adrian Feng
Face Off, Taichung
02/08 – 02/20 2014
Review by Sarah Lo (in Chinese) – (click on the link to read)
江山藝改所 Jiang Shan Yi Gai Suo, Hsinchu
12/29, 2014 – 01-17, 2014
GDI Association, Taichung
12/08 – 12/27 2013
Watch: Hush…!
Filmed during the exhibition at 江山藝改所 Jian Shan Yi Gai Suo in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Music by An Tôn Thât. 2014
Photos @ 江山藝改所 Jiang Shan Yi Gai Suo, Hsinchu
Photos @ GDI Association, Taichung
WE WERE HERE
Changi Cafe, Taipei
10/14 – 10/21, 2012
A selection of photos taken through the years…
Bulb and sky, Kokkino Nero, Greece, 2015
Prada Building, Omotesando, Tokyo, 2016
Asian boys, Rue au Maire, Paris, 2015
Little boy, Saigon, Vietnam, 2015
Jardin du Château de Saint-Saturnin, Saint-Saturnin, France, 2014
Cloud Factory, Düsseldorf, 2014
Girls at the Meiji Shrine, Tokyo, 2013
Countryside in Winter, Niigata, 2013
Traces of the past, Taichung 2013
In a bubble, Place de l’Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 2013
William in reflection, Taipei, 2013
View from Kennedy Town, Hong Kong, 2013
Jardin des Tuileries, Paris 2010
Holocaust Memorial, Berlin 2013
This type of modern life, New York 1996
Two boys playing, Red House, Ximen, Taipei 2009
Baby Boy and Baby Woman, Taipei, 2012
Old man under the sakura, Niigata 2007
Old town in Hanoi, 2012
Swimmer, Zürich 2011
Scaffolding, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong 2011
Icons, Saint Sophia Church, Istambul 1997
Swan Lake Costume, Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo, 2003