The Last Cosmology Ben Burbridge and Photoworks

and Photoworks

These are real places

illuminated by the hopes and visions of a bygone era

for which he was awarded the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize (2014)

Following the narrative sequence of the film

The Last Cosmology Ben Burbridge and PhotoworksI was born at the beginning of the Showa Era. There was a great war during my boyhood and then I lived during the period of re construction and growth and now I slowly approach the evening of life. Through these photographs the cosmology is an illusion of the firmament at the same time it includes the reality of an era and also the cosmology of a changing heart. Kikuji Kawada Astrology, once a scholarly tradition, binds astronomical phenomena to