Japanese photographer Ryunosuke Suginaka works the camera like a painter’s brush.

His palette is reminiscent of Japanese watercolors and sometimes hints towards a narrative. But Suginaka leads us to a new Japanese aesthetic, one full of an exciting and captivating entanglement of sensibilities. Suginaka studied photography at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium and he uses technology to skew a seemingly simple scene into something quite complicated and rhythmic; colors are amped, light cuts a swath through a murky interior, figures lurk unexpectedly in a manipulated and elegant composition. Tension runs high in his work; Texture roils and pushes at the edges of the photographs, beats against your eyes. Yet, always, a fragility lies in the thin spaces between the shadows. Suginaka is interested in the transcendence that occurs during seemingly quotidian moments: an unexpected second of silence in a noisy room, the sadness vibrating just beneath the beautiful, or fireworks against a black sky, fracturing the night with a gasp of brilliance.