写真のNFTアート市場調査【2023年】Photography NFT spotlight (1/2)

2022年のNFT関連は加熱気味だったあら熱が1年かけて適度に冷めた1年でした。写真関連で言えば、古い写真をアーカイブとして使ったり写真をべースとしたデジタルアートを制作しているNFT、デジタルとアナログの複合など面白い作品を見かけるようになりました。OpenseaがPhotography NFT spotlightとしてフィーチャーしていた写真系NFT作品をピックアップします。

写真のNFTアート市場調査【2023年】Photography NFT spotlight

2022年のNFT関連は加熱気味だったあら熱が適度に冷めた1年だったように思います。NFTはそれまで売買の難しかったデジタルアートと相性が良いように思える一方で、アナログ作品をデジタル化して販売しているもの多く見かけます。

加えて、NFTアートの定義は2022年を振り返ってもまだ明確でないことと、NFTはツールに過ぎないのでこれからそのツールをどんな風に使う人が出てくるのか期待できる部分があるように思います。

写真関連で言えば、古い写真をアーカイブとして使ったり写真をべースとしたデジタルアートを制作しているNFT、デジタルとアナログの複合など面白い作品を見かけるようになってこれは新規参入者が増え写真関連のデジタルワーク市場が少しずつ拡大をしてきたことを感じています。

写真関連のNFT作品をまとめたいと思っていたところOpenseaのTOPページに、Photography NFT spotlight として写真作品をフィーチャーしていたのでそれらをピックアップします。

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ちょうど一年前は自分のNFTを発売にあたり、コントラクトやトークン規格（ERC721 or ERC1155）を調べていました。2022年にピックアップしていた作品も重複しています。

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Somewhere Else: A Collection of 100 Palms by Will Nichols

Contract Address：Opensea
Token Standard：ERC-1155
Blockchain：Ethereum
Metadata：Centralized
items：100

As one of the world's most recognizable and cherished plants, the towering omnipresence of a palm tree is entrancing and comforting, serving as a universal expression of peace and tranquility.For Los Angeles based artist Will Nichols, palm trees' magnetic pull led him to discover newfound meaning when he first picked up a camera eight years ago. While initially documenting his surroundings as a form of therapy, Will gravitated toward the escapist quality that palm trees undeniably possess. As Will grew deeper into his artistic process, the palm trees he captured began to take shape in hyper-realistic habitats, becoming main characters in their own right and transporting onlookers into alternative new worlds.In his latest collection, "Somewhere Else: A Collection of 100 Palms," Will showcases his ever-evolving style, presenting 100 photographs that represent his journey and explore the singular source of transportive—and transformational—hope that palm trees hypnotically provide

>> Somewhere Else: A Collection of 100 Palms by Will Nichols By
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The Way In

Contract Address：Opensea
Token Standard：ERC-1155
Blockchain：Ethereum
Metadata：Centralized
items：12

It’s no coincidence that the series “The Way In” is my first contribution to the digital world. A pure space, stripped to its essence, reveals a geometric labyrinth where the mind wanders in search of universal truths or to answer fundamental questions - embodied by primary colored spheres. Their presence and proximity are felt by the subject but never seized.The images evoke a meta-space where avatars, in fluid ever-changing scenes, exit on one side to re-enter from the other. Likewise the mind meanders in and out, as it plows deeper, digging for a meaning to latch onto. Even if this place of genesis makes for an excellent refuge in turbulent times, the quest for mental clarity cannot be taken for granted.

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Rizzo Collection by Alberto Rizzo

Contract Address：Quantum Art (QART)
Token Standard：ERC-721
Blockchain：Ethereum
items：100

Alberto arrived in NYC in 1965 to follow his passion as a Fashion photographer. Moving away from straight point and shoot images, he sought to change the way people saw fashion and beauty photography. Alberto’s early fashion work makes use of this by breaking away from his contemporaries and creating a sense of theatre, dance, and beauty that speak through his photographs, and border on the sublime. His painting, design, and graphic art background at the Accademia delle Bella Arti di Brera, Milan, as well as his training as a classical ballet dancer influenced much of his work. These inspirations are exemplified by his use of silhouettes, shadows, and illustrative elements in his early fashion photography. In the mid ‘80s Alberto had a studio in NYC on Mulberry and Grand where the top floor was used as a workspace. He would often sit at the corner window in the afternoons and watch people on the street. This was the inspiration for what would become a 10-year journey of “Shadow Series” photographs. Every day at 4pm, Alberto would photograph the shadows of people going about their business from his perch above - this imbued the photographs with a duality rarely seen in life imitating art.Alberto’s inspiration for the “Cut Out Paper Series” was oddly enough, a chance occurrence of a roll of calculator paper falling onto the floor into the sunlight. This would lead to his fascination with cutting and forming paper into the abstract art you see in the beautiful images that continued to evolve as a series for decades. Alberto would turn seamless paper into cut outs of human forms and place them in reverse shadow boxes to later photograph. This work expanded as he began incorporating his existing photographs, playing with colors and layering in his darkroom and combining the images into truly surreal art. Alberto’s illustrious career as a photographer and artist spans nearly 40 years and has evolved from his early Fashion work, to the Shadow Series, through the Paper Cut Out Series, to his fine art paintings. Throughout his lifetime, Alberto would experiment with many different mediums, concepts, and styles spanning into both analogue and digital - all of which has led to The Rizzo Genesis Collection, a representation of his finest works using all of these original concepts and musings.Body a Pois - The Polka Dots on transparencies were shot as individual images of models and dropped into transparency film holders. This is a history lesson on how things looked in the 1970s.

>> Rizzo Collection by Alberto Rizzo By Quantum-Art-Curator

DRIP DROP BY DAVE KRUGMAN

Contract Address：DRIP DROP // BY DAVE KRUGMAN (DRIPDROP)
Token Standard：ERC-721
Blockchain：Ethereum
items：1,011

‘Drip Drop’ is a cohesive collection of 1111 1/1 photography NFTs by New York based photographer Dave Krugman. This collection is an ode to generative art from projects like Art Blocks, inspired by works such as Chromie Squiggles, Fidenzas, and Ringers. To learn more about this project, visit the Drip Drop website on ALLSHIPS and join the Dave Krugman Discord. 100 mints are held for future. ‘Drip Drop’ is a study of the generative beauty of the universe, as viewed through the lens of rain hitting puddles in Times Square. Color spectrums emerge from bright billboards, and wash over textured water, highlighting the beauty at the intersection of nature and civilization. At the overlap of these worlds, gorgeous patterns emerge. Each Drip is a slide to be studied- a cross section of entropy and energy. ‘Drip Drop’ is a collaboration between Dave Krugman and Transient Labs. The team built a custom machine vision algorithm that sorts and batches Drips based on their emergent rarities.

>> DRIP DROP BY DAVE KRUGMAN By DaveKrugman

By Way of Water

Contract Address：OpenSea
Token Standard：ERC-1155
Blockchain：Ethereum
Metadata：Centralized
items：100

"By Way of Water" is a 100-piece collection of photographs shot over the last 12 months aboard various ferries around the Seattle, WA area.Exploring the greater Seattle area, and the many surrounding islands, involves time spent on the ferries. I always enjoy my time in transit because it offers me the opportunity to wander and capture moments on film.For a longer backstory, please give this Twitter thread a look: https://twitter.com/kristophershinn/status/1449063809516072960?s=20This collection is dedicated to my family. I take the ferry a ton to see them.All photos were taken with my Canon AE-1 Program or Mamiya 7 on Kodak Film

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Panoramic Portraits

Contract Address：Panoramic Portraits (PORTRAITS)
Token Standard：ERC-721
Blockchain：Ethereum
items：50

Panoramic portrait photos from many parts of the world in 4 years. Rizacan Kumas focuses on people's feelings and stories while taking photographs. Maximum 50 photographs will be mint inside of this collection.

>> Panoramic Portraits By rizacankumas