Born in Tokyo in 1980 and currently based in Kyoto, Ryosuke Toyama is an experimental photographer whose practice confronts the nature of time, light, and human creativity. Reviving handcrafted techniques such as calotypes, ambrotypes, and camera obscura installations, he resists the disposability of the digital image, grounding his work in methods that emphasize permanence and material presence. At a moment when AI reshapes creative fields, Toyama positions himself within a historical continuum: just as 19th-century painters redefined their role after the advent of photography, he asks what remains uniquely human in the act of image-making today.