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For a person never having had a visual experience, I wonder how they imagine the horizon and wide blue heavens from just words. Because blind people don’t have vision, they make mistakes in perceiving the outside world. On the other hand, because visually minded humans tend to rely too much on vision, they wind up misunderstanding. Lost eyes ……When reconsidering the role being fulfilled within images of today in politics, economics, and society, we can see the depth of the issue. We mustn’t forget that the imagined image is actually something created.
Selecting judge: Kotaro Iizawa
A strong work, with a focused concept and time well spent on it. Everything is well calculated, including the frames and how they’re arranged, which is pleasant to the senses. The theme of subway passengers isn’t new, (Walker Evans has already experimented with it in the 1930s), but Tokyo passengers are interesting in a different sense. When gazing at the face of someone who’s fallen asleep, the image of a dead person becomes double-exposed. You can call this a symbolic photo series for the end-of-the-century Tokyo landscape. I hope he will continue to question the meaning of human existence.
