My photo series “Wintertag” was selected as one of the 12 Winners in FotoFilmic JRNL 11 Winter 2022 Issue. I’m honored. Thank you to FotoFilmic and Corey Keller for selecting my work.
JRNL 11 Guest editor: Corey Keller
She is historian of photography and independent curator based in Oakland, CA. From 2003 to 2021, she served as curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). She is currently adjunct professor in the photography program at California College of the Arts (CCA).
One of my favorite zine ‘Incandescent’. It is curated and produced in Portland, Oregon by Pine Island Press. I made some videos of Incandescent (Issue 7, 10, 12, 16, and 17). Check out my YouTube playlist or Vimeo showcase. Thank you for the permission, founder Helen Jones. I hope Incandescent continues.
10年間で印刷コストは倍になりましたという箇所から、パブリッシャーの立場ではないのですが、書籍化におけるサステイナビリティ（持続可能性）をアメリカの助成金以外で自分も少し勘案してみたい感じがします。YouTubeやVimeoに置いた動画は、ワールドワイドに開かれている文化のひとつをシェア出来たらという思いとソールド・アウトになった場合は入手出来ないので、そのためのアーカイブのつもりです。オムニバス形式の冊子ですが、一度ブックショップのオーナー様などもチェックして頂けたらと心の内で願いつつ。*発行部数は毎号約200〜250部。初期のものはソールド・アウト、Issue 10+12はalmost sold out!とのことです。
Reincarnation (26 photos) : This personal photo story is an ongoing series, which started in 2010. These photos are at my parents’ house and surrounding countryside the Izu peninsula. My father said, “When I retire, I’d like to spend the rest of my life in the Izu peninsula”. In 2010, my father bought a house in the Izu peninsula. Mountain-burning on the Mt. Omuro is one of the events of the Izu peninsula. It will be carried out in February every year for refreshment of grasses. I think it to be reincarnation (A never ending cycle of life). It is the last place that my parents live. *The paper airplane that my father handed to my mother is the contract sheet of this house.
I’m taking a break from social media for a while (about three months). I need to actually study. I bought an A3+ inkjet printer during the pandemic. I got some advice about inkjet print from printing director at Yamanote Photographic (Related post: here). I’m retrying photography prints with an inkjet printer. Feel free to give me your feedback and advice via DM or email. *I always use brownie 120 film 6×7 medium format. And sometimes I use 35mm (135) film.
Inkjet fine art paper: ILFORD and SiHL
Darkroom enlarging paper: ORIENTAL
Clamshell storage box: Print File, Inc.
Print size: 8×10 inches
*I’m going to get vaccinated for the first time on September 13th (Second dose: October 4th).
My B/W photos (Left to right): 1. International student wearing a facemask. 2-3. Social distancing. 4. Message in the windows of Tachikawa Sougo General Hospital: “Hospital at its limits. Stop the Olympics!”. 5. ‘TOKYO 2020’ Olympic banners and the ‘Olympic’ supermarket’s signboard at the top of building. – Taken on April 2021
The Olympic games opened on July 23. But I haven’t been vaccinated yet. Vaccination for the coronavirus has been delayed in Japan. Anyway, I hope that the Covid Pictures archive will be useful to humanity, society and history around the world in the future.
Photo.1 at UTRECHT (Jingumae, Tokyo), Photo.2-3 at BOOK AND SONS (Meguro, Tokyo)
Photography
2021.01
香取声
情け島
新宿ニコンサロン
2021.04
小山奈那子×伊藤彩香
Where You Are
BOOK AND SONS
2021.06
都築響一の眼 Vol.4 / portraits 見出された工藤正市
KKAG
2021.07
ホンマタカシ
Tokyo and ‘my Daughter’
POST BOOKS
2021.07
ホンマタカシ
‘Tokyo’ and my Daughter
UTRECHT
2021.10
Guy Bourdin
The Absurd and The Sublime
CHANEL NEXUS HALL
COVID-19 state of emergency (in Tokyo and Kanagawa)
1. 04.07.2020 – 05.25.2020
2. 01.08.2021 – 03.21.2021
3. 04.20.2021 – 06.20.2021
4. 07.12.2021 – 09.30.2021
My photography prints + Wood frame sample at Yamanote Photographic. Yamanote Photographic is an ILFORD certified print lab in Japan. I got some advice about inkjet print from printing director.
New: Short documentary series “Tokyo 2020” (14 photos)
“You keep that,” said my dad. It was a copper medal commemorating the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which were held before I was born. He told me that the start of shinkansen rail serviceswas timed to coincide with the Games, and thatsales of the colour TV sets that replaced black and white ones went through the roof. The second Tokyo Olympics was planned to take place56 years after the first, in 2020. But the Covid-19 pandemic broke out at the start of the year, and the Games were rescheduled for 2021. The global coronaviruscrisis remained unresolved, however, and cities in Europe and America went into lockdown. In Japan, where the law does not allow lockdowns, states of emergency were repeatedly declared in the major cities. In April 2021, Tachikawa Sougo General Hospital, a medical facility in one ofTokyo’ssuburbs, postedmessages in its windows warning that it was at the limit of its capacity to treat patients and calling for the Olympics to be cancelled. At present, with three months to go before the Games are due to start, the majority of Japanese citizens are still unvaccinated, while the Japanese government’s line is that the Olympics will go ahead.
This short documentary series is intended to allow us in future to look back on the once-in-a-lifetime year of the planned Tokyo Olympics.
Translated by Michael Normoyle and Yoshiko Furuhashi at M&Y Translations (Birmingham, UK)
These photographs are part of “Borderland”, one of my photo archive projects. I live in the city of Sagamihara (Kanagawa Prefecture), where the US ArmySagami General Depot is situated. In 2014, 17 of the depot’s total 214.4 hectares were returned to Japan. A local pro soccer team isplanning to relocate its home stadium to this area.There are also plans to constructan extension of the Odakyu Tama railway line anda new station underground here. What this currently unused site will look like in the future is very hard to imagine. Recording this landscape as it changes will require a long (10-year) time-frame.Since the end of the War in 1945, Kanagawa Prefecture seems to have experienced an influx of American culture, as the US Army’s presence has brought jazz, surfing, surf music, movies, hamburgers, entertainment, art and the like to Shonan coast and even thecentral area of the prefecture where I live.
Translated by Michael Normoyle and Yoshiko Furuhashi at M&Y Translations (Birmingham, UK)
「Borderland」に追加した8枚の写真について: これらは、私の写真アーカイブ・プロジェクトのひとつ「Borderland」に関連した写真です。私が住む神奈川県内には米陸軍相模総合補給廠があり、2014年に214.4ヘクタールのうち17ヘクタールが土地返還されました。将来この場所には、地元のプロ・サッカーチームのホームスタジアムが移転される計画となっており、さらには、小田急多摩線が延伸され、地下に新たな駅が建設される計画となっています。現在の手付かずの土地からは未来の風景を想像するのはとても難しいですが、移り変わっていく風景を記録していくには10年単位の長い年月が必要です。そして、神奈川県の文化に目を向けると、1945年の終戦以降、湘南海岸を始め、この県央地区でも、ジャズ、サーフィン、サーフ・ミュージック、映画、ハンバーガー、エンタテインメントやアートなどのアメリカ文化が米軍を通じて入ってきたそうです（参考文献 Works Cited:「米軍基地と神奈川」國學院大学講師・栗田尚弥編著 有隣新書、他）。
