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Through the Lens: Blue Man Group Vortex grand prize winner Ryuji Suzuki
Brian Goslow
Most photographers begin their careers with inspiration from the past. Not Ryuji Suzuki, who bought his first camera when he came to the United States in 1995 so he could send travel pictures home to family and friends in Sendai, Japan. "In the first roll, I started taking picture of atypical scenes," said Suzuki. "I asked myself, 'Why do I have to take these pictures that other people have taken?'"

The 32-year-old Suzuki recently won the $2500 grand prize in the 18+ Age Group of the Blue Man Group's annual juried "Vortex" art competition. The winning work, "Crosstalk," a silver-gelatin print toned in polysulfide and selenium, will be exhibited at the Charles Playhouse through October 2007. It was taken in Central Square on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.

"(Through the photograph) I'm expressing that pay phones are things that people don't care about any more," Suzuki said. "They're inanimate devices that were once part of our everyday lives. I found it interesting that I could use those things completely differently."

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