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"beyond the universe"
There are many times when people don't understand you, and you think, don't act like you do understand.
Don't get close to me. And it's always lonely like this.
This probably applies to anyone, but I was always thinking, no, that's not it, no, that's not it…
It was like this for a long time, with no way to release my emotions.
Everything I saw or heard or felt was pointless. Maybe I was not aware of it being pointless, but an emotion resembling the words, "so what," would come and go every day.
When I took up photography, I recognized those days.
High school is a unique place and time, and although I thought about so many things, now I've already forgotten them and the only things that remain are emotional imprints.
I don't know if I just forgot, or intentionally forgot.
Even the imprints now become hazy, but I think they will at least remain in my photographs.
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Sep 4, 1991:Born in Kanagawa prefecture
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2010:Currently attending the Promotion Movie Department, Toho Gakuen Film Techniques Training College
Winner in the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia
Selecting judge: Mika Ninagawa
I think photography captures a certain air or ephemeral quality that exists only in that time. Likewise, these photographs reveal the happiness, the audacity and the insecurities that only show when girls are amongst girls. The presentation and the book's construction are a little messy, but there is a strange momentum that exceeds this, and they have a presence. I feel a little bit of the 90s atmosphere, which is where I come from. If this becomes some sort of momentum, and if she continues to take photographs, I expect she will go on to create more interesting work.






