Theory of “Zero-Horizon Arts Photography”

Theory of “Zero-Horizon marginal Arts Photography”

Zero-horizon Photographic Art and Photographic Fine Art — Their Phases and the Role of Shadō

Within the concept of Zero-horizon, there exist two distinct yet interwoven layers.The first is the point at which the phenomena of the world and human awareness intersect—what may be called Zero-horizon Photographic Art,art as phenomenon itself.Here, photography does not exist as a “work,”but as a phenomenological act through which the world mirrors itself.To photograph is not to fix an object,but to attune oneself to the breathing of the world,to receive the exchange between light and silence.

The second layer situates this philosophy within a social context,manifesting it as Zero-horizon Photographic Fine Art—a visible form shaped as “artwork” or “aesthetic object.”In this realm, the work carries the author’s intention and structure,linking itself to institutional systems of exhibition, documentation, and evaluation.Yet its essence remains rooted in the former:it is founded upon art as phenomenon,arising from the horizon where the world and human beings share a single breath.

The practical bridge that connects these two layers is Shadō, the Way of the Photograph.Shadō is the discipline of aligning one’s own breathing with that of the world,of finding harmony within its subtle fluctuations.Through the act of photographing,one stands before the moment when the world reveals its own form.This entire process embodies the spirit of Shadō—the path by which the philosophy of Zero-horizon Photographic Art takes tangible form within lived reality.

Thus, Shadō and Zero-horizon Photographic Fine Art share a common root.Both arise from the same point of departure—the resonance between the world and the human breath—and both embody its essence.However, their directions diverge.Shadō is a system of practice,while Zero-horizon Photographic Fine Art is a system of form.If Shadō questions the mode of being,then Fine Art is the visible trace of that being within the world.

Therefore, the two should not be bound by an equation,but understood as a vertical continuum—a single axis linking inner practice and outer manifestation.

Shadō is the act of attuning oneself to the world’s breath,finding harmony within the fluctuations of its phenomena.Zero-horizon Photographic Fine Art is the form that emerges as the trace of that act—the record of a single breath in which the world reveals itself.

In this way, the Zero-horizon structure is completed as a triadic system:Zero-horizon Photographic Art → Shadō → Zero-horizon Photographic Fine Art.Art represents the philosophical principle,Shadō the way of practice,and Fine Art the visible crystallization of that shared breath.