26/07/2021
We’re introducing the Tokyo SPC members who participated in the last exhibition 📸 Check & Follow .m.k.i
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Immediately after quitting my job, I went to see Nuts, who was staying in New York at that time. There, I came into contact with the culture of street photography and I began to witness the various ways of life and values of people; how behaviors that were usually criticized were accepted. I think my early photographs were works that sent respect to people in the city who lived in their own way, and their liberation, from narrow horizons. Now I'm in the process of gaining new perspectives and values through cameras and photography.
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The series I am working on now, JAM PHOTO, is one of them. Until now, I have learned life from street photography, and this time I am exploring what I think of as a work. JAM PHOTO was a series that I started to make unconsciously, but looking back, if there even is a correct answer in street photography, I think I was born with the desire to aim for something that does not have to be the correct answer. There are no fixed rules for JAM in music. I moved to Kanagawa and met many wonderful musicians, and it was at this time I became aware of this.
This Shinjuku night cruising photo combines two areas in Photoshop contrasting Tokyo at night with the beach, where I live, at noon.