“ever green”
I let my body move as the wind blows, and only left my green handwriting.
Many different things seemed to jump into the frame.
I felt that my camera turned out to be a black hole for a certain period of time.
I could only control the time. When people watch something, they try to possess it by seeing it. I don’t photograph what I try to see, but I receive things that are photographed as what the camera has seen them. Photographs always look fresh to me. The mechanical eye, unlike the human eye, leads us to a new world. I’d like to cherish, not the world I can see, but what is invisible.
Born in Yokohama in 1980. Studied at Tokyo International University (School of Human and social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Comparative Culture) and left it in 2000. Entered Tokyo College of Photography in 2001, and is currently studying there. In 2002, took part in Eiji Ina’s class exhibition “Petit” at Gallery le Deco. He is currently working as a freelance photographer.
Selecting judge: Martin Parr
In a quiet landscape mainly of trees and greenery, “moving clean wind” is marvelously visualized as a form. A simple idea is expressed, with the maximum care. His technique for making large prints has reached perfection, and he deserves this prize without question. One of the ultimate qualities of “a good work of art” is that the viewer feels content when coming across it, and this is it. In this work, a state of being beautiful is expressed in a simple way, and that idea is controlled thoroughly in detail. This work is heading for “a new territory of photographic expression.”
