Category: Photography

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Portrait Works

I had pleasure to shoot bariton Masato Inoue some years back. This photo is one of my favorites from that session.

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My Silent Road Exhibition

I will exhibit my photo series “My Silent Road” sometimes soon in a very special place in Yokohama. I realized I have started to think think of Yokohama naturally as my hometown. Finland feels like a chapter which I have already read and there’s no reason to return to it. There are so many lovely people near me here. I really was like a walking corpse once, but now I feel healthy and alive again. Love Songs might be for my mother. But this is for you.

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Eric Kim: Grandfather

http://erickimphotography.com/index.php?/black-and-white-street-photography/-grandfather/

I was really moved about the photo series by Eric Kim. These images went straight into my heart. Eric Kim has such a big courage and love for photography and with the photos of his grandfather I feel it’s so obvious how he has let photography to take over his life. And then it feels so natural that he shot his own grandfather’s funeral.

Beautiful, moving work.

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Regarding Photography

People in Tibet think body is only a container, like a vase. When I take photo of a person, I never look at the vase. I want to see and feel what’s inside. It is my way to take photo, and I don’t think I could ever do it differently.

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Untitled Series, Tokyo

I had absolutely great time shooting with Tomoko today in Shinjuku. This photo is my favorite of all the photos we shot. These are first photos for my new photo series Untitled, Tokyo.

To be continued.

 

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Summer Moment

I took this photo using iPhone5. I am surprised how good and natural the colour saturation is in this image. It’s in fact amazing considering that this was taken by a phone.

I had to hold my hand to block the flare since sun was shining to the lens from about 45 degree angle, without my hand the flare was unbearable. Maybe I could construct some kind of portable hood for iPhone?

I just love Finnish summer nature. Since I’m kind of foreigner here now, I can really enjoy shooting like a tourist..

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Facebook Profile Picture

facebookのプロフィール写真撮ります。
リラックスした、自然な表情の写真は任せてください。
スタジオでの撮影も、公園や森の中など屋外での撮影も大丈夫です。
東京・横浜エリアで受け付けています。

料金（税込）10,000円

I can shoot interesting Facebook profile photo of you, in environment which you prefer, such as forest, indoors or in studio. In my photo, people have natural, relaxed look.  I am available to work in Tokyo / Yokohama area.

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The cost starts from 円10,000 (incl. tax.)

Please contact me.

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Pain of Photography

I find Susan Sontag’s words healing in some strange way, in this chapter she writes about photos of Arbus,

“According to Reich, the masochist’s taste for pain does not spring from a love of pain but from the hope of procuring, by means of pain, a strong sensation; those handicapped by emotional or sensory analgesia only prefer pain to not feeling anything at all.”

It could be argued that photographers seek connection to the world through their photos, great photographers often have had some traumatic event in some point of their lives, after which they find it difficult to connect to the world same way as other people can normally. Ordinary days feel so alien to us..

Photographs may become a way for people to feel something, but it’s at the same time, looking photographs also anesthetize.

Photography can be a way of ultimate cure, entire lifestyle which is built on supporting and protecting the artist’s soul. And at the same time, moments recorded on photographic paper turn into dust, photos themselves fade and disappear, and people forget them. Life is fragile like a piece of paper, other side being death, it takes a faint breeze of dust to flip it around, unexposed image becomes exposed.

Yet, recorded evidence of life makes somehow everything seem less painful, even though actually it might worsen the pain itself in form of nostalgia.