Sean Lotman, an artist originally from Los Angeles, settled in Kyoto in 2003 after living for some time in Tokyo. He draws his inspiration from narrative fiction and from Technicolor films of the 1930s-1950s in which colours appear unreal. The very particular, sometimes psychedelic atmosphere of his images is linked to the dodge and burn technique (which consists of lightening and darkening different areas of the image). The artist develops his images himself in the darkroom, experimenting to the extreme to imprint on his photographs his own subjective reality. The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow brings together 96 images made with a Diana camera and 20 short poems.