Transform part one
Cultural heritage is that which is transmitted to us in daily life. "what does heritage mean to you?" is the question I asked the Baldwin high school students. Accompanied by their voices I reconstitute the Japanese immigration history to Hawaii which began in 1885...
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Cultural heritage is that which is transmitted to us in daily life. "what does heritage mean to you?" is the question I asked the Baldwin high school students. Accompanied by their voices I reconstitute the Japanese immigration history to Hawaii which began in 1885...
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Transform Origin
Some years ago, a man who lived on Maui, Hawaii returned to France and gave me an old suitcase full of vintage photographs (circa.1900 to 1950) which a neighboring Japanese-descended family had owned...
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Blond Ambition & Flag installation
How can we define Japan? What is racial consciousness? How do we define our ethnic identity as an individual?
“Identity” can be only recognized where there is a difference.
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How can we define Japan? What is racial consciousness? How do we define our ethnic identity as an individual?
“Identity” can be only recognized where there is a difference.
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Triumph
This series celebrates our life in its essence: The mortal existence of life itself.
When we are born, breathing itself is a triumph.
We only realize this again when we are confronted with circumstances such as facing birth or death.
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Paradises lost
Photographed daily for one month, using Polaroid 600 instant film. Originally a collaboration / dialogue with a photographer (in different places, using the same technique based on the idea of writing letter visually) but this didn't materialise.
These images trace fragmented memories from childhood 'till the present that is now the past which can be only found within.
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Looking for "tree in the sun"
This photographic series is based on the manga from Tezuka Osamu, "Hidamari no ki". I looked for Japan by visiting places that were important in the late 19 century and in the life of Osamu by visiting places which were important for him. Following in the footsteps of his manga "Hidamari no ki" and his life, I question what Japan used to be and what is today.
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Seesaw Spotting
Can one photograph that which is missing?
Even more difficult, can one express his own story within an image of that which did not take place?
Can that which did not take place ever have a place?
Can one photograph what happened in the past that which hasn't passed?
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Can one photograph that which is missing?
Even more difficult, can one express his own story within an image of that which did not take place?
Can that which did not take place ever have a place?
Can one photograph what happened in the past that which hasn't passed?
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Water Field
Nine years after completion, I put this work together based on photography and notes I had made during 21 days spent in Suibara, Niigata.
This was in a letter form addressed to a person from whom I'd separated before arriving in the water field.
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Nine years after completion, I put this work together based on photography and notes I had made during 21 days spent in Suibara, Niigata.
This was in a letter form addressed to a person from whom I'd separated before arriving in the water field.
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