I Want To Be A Coppola - Sofia Coppola's Favorites

Early on, Sofia Coppola explored different career options. From painting to fashion design, photography to filmmaking, her varied interests have led to quite an extensive art collection. One of her favorites artists in this collection is Japanese photographer Takashi Homma.

In the late 1980s, Homma started out as a photographer for various advertising campaigns and editorials for fashion magazines such as i-D. In 1998, he won the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award for Tokyo Suburbia. This collection influenced Japanese photographic expression using images of empty suburban landscapes with the youth that roam its streets. Homma’s photographic style lies in the detachment — even though we have taught ourselves to ignore these unremarkable spaces, a scene from the everyday can be beautiful and cinematic.

With Tokyo and my Daughter we see a shift from the emptiness of suburban landscapes to scenes from Homma’s inner world. This work focuses on beautifully intimate interior shots and portraits of a father and daughter’s life in the city. Even though the girl in the series is not Homma’s daughter, he still manages to capture that special bond between a father and daughter.

Homma provided an introduction for Sofia’s photobook titled SC 2003: (Some Pictures from This Past Year). Published only in Japan, Sofia snaps fifteen colorful images of her friends and family including mother Eleanor, brother Roman, niece Gia, cousin Jason Schwartzman, then husband Spike Jonze, Kirsten Dunst, and Marc Jacobs.

More recently Homma turned his lens towards nature with New Waves. The waves from the North Shore in Hawaii provide Homma with endless opportunities to photograph their changing appearances. Takashi Homma blogs at Between the Books.