Unseen wonders: 70 years of Japanese female photographers in pictures
Briefly

By not sticking to the viewfinder, the boundary between what is in and out of the shot becomes ambiguous. By taking photographs without a set theme or desire to shoot in this or that way, I would like to keep myself in a state of openness to the external world around me.
The self-portrait means that you can take on both roles, as a model and as a photographer. When you have a camera on a tripod, you have the space in front of the camera and also the space behind the camera. It's very symbolic. It's a way of taking action against the historical roles of the male and female in photography.
Suddenly I saw these women, who were continuously performing their role before the audience that is the society at large, in relation to myself, as I was now alone with no place in society.
I believe that photography can capture a dimension of the world that is invisible to my eyes. I also believe that time in photography is a unique image space that is not the time and space that we inhabit.
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