ILAN DERECH
Exploring time through photography and slow cinema.
Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist exploring time and perception through still photography and slow cinema. His work transforms fleeting moments into immersive experiences where stillness and motion coexist. Rooted in street and travel photography, his practice extends and reshapes time, not as something to measure, but to feel. In a culture of acceleration, his pieces invite a shift from observation to sensation.
イラン・デレフは、静止写真とスローシネマを横断しながら、時間とその知覚を探求するマルチディシプリナリー・アーティストである。彼の作品は、日常における束の間の瞬間を、静と動が共存する没入的な体験へと変容させる。 ストリートおよび旅の写真に根ざした彼の実践は、時間を測る対象としてではなく、感じ取るものとして拡張し、再構成する。加速する現代文化の中で、彼の作品は観察から感覚への移行を促す。
Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist exploring time and perception through still photography and slow cinema. His work transforms fleeting moments of everyday life into immersive visual experiences where stillness and motion quietly coexist.
Emerging from a foundation in street and travel photography, his practice begins with attentive observation and extends moments beyond their passing. By stretching and reshaping time, Derech invites a slower way of seeing. In a culture defined by acceleration, his works encourage a shift from observation to sensation, where time is not measured, but felt.
Exhibitions & Showcasings
Selected presentations, screenings, and installations.
Non Fungible Conference
An installation of looping studies where softness and tension coexist—micro-movements, spatial sound, and a restrained editorial palette.
Open ArchivePoetic Architecture
A large-scale projection mapping work presented as part of Moments Between Stillness, exploring time, architecture, and immersive visual rhythm.
View ProjectTour First, La Défense
After several months of renovation, the Tour First has opted for an innovative digital pathway to transform its spaces into a veritable artistic showcase and arouse new emotions in the public! Giant screens and totem displays are put at the disposal of contemporary digital creation, in times where the benefits of art's presence in the workplace are well established. Immerse yourself in an immersive digital art exhibition in the heart of La Défense!
View ScreeningCollaborations
Selected interviews, features, and collaborations.
Street Photography in Tokyo
ZEISS · 2025
A collaboration with ZEISS exploring Tokyo at night through the Otus ML 1.4/35, capturing fleeting urban moments and transforming them into cinematic fragments of time.
Watch on YouTube →Interview: On Seeing & Silence
NOWNESS · 2024
A quiet conversation on process, restraint, and the choreography of light—how images become memory without announcing themselves.
Watch on YouTube →Ilan Derech
Mexico City, 1990
Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist working between photography and cinema, whose practice explores time, perception, and the quiet poetry of everyday life. Born in Mexico and now based in Japan, his work emerges from the intersection of these two cultural landscapes, blending the observational traditions of street photography with the contemplative pacing of slow cinema. Through moving images and still photographs, Derech transforms fleeting gestures and unnoticed moments into immersive visual experiences that invite viewers to slow down and feel the passage of time.

