Capturing the Secrets of Light and Shadow: Photographer Muda Tomohiro

Standing Statue of the Bodhisattva Asanga (Mujaku) (© Muda Tomohiro)

The picture of the Asanga figure graces the cover of the 2020 Tomohiro Muda Buddha Universe, which compiles Muda’s photographs of some of the greatest masterpieces of Buddhist art. (© Muda Tomohiro)

(© Kawamoto Seiya)

A house slipper swept away by the tsunami presents a different face when found years later. From Toki no ikon: Higashi Nihon daishinsai no kioku (Icons of Time), in which Muda photographed objects left behind by the Great East Japan Earthquake. (© Muda Tomohiro)

An image from The Land of Sherpa, 1990. (© Muda Tomohiro)

From Citeaux (2012). (© Muda Tomohiro)

From Yungang Grottoes (2005). (© Muda Tomohiro)