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No.391 “PORTRAIT OF SHADE”
Photography by Tomofumi Usa
Model by Kaori Mochizuki at BARK in STYLe
The hustle and bustle, and the silence of the city, light and shade. Opposites cohabit.
This belongs to the shade, its portrait.
It stands quietly. An expression that does not clearly appear on the surface.
Not direct, and difficult to understand.
This is a real portrait that reflects myself.
This work expresses my way of being and thinking, returning to the starting point.
This is a work that I created back to basics as a photographer, and it is one that serves as a guideline for me.
Shigeo Gocho, who inspired me to pursue photography when I was a high school student and had the greatest influence on me as a photographer, was a major motive power in the creation of this work.
The moment that I find genuinely beautiful, the things I want to express.
Even if they are “difficult to understand and overlooked”, they are undeniably beautiful moments to me.
This is my own quiet resistance and expression of intention.
I chose the form of web gallery for this work with the hope that people will be able to look at this quietly in their own personal space.
In the direction of landing page design, the motif is based on the 70s graphical record jackets, which were the most influential in terms of visual expression.
I was also conscious of a composition that utilized white margins like a photo book.
A photographer based in Tokyo.
After graduating from the Photography Department of TOKYO VISUAL ARTS, he started to work as a studio assistant and then joined amana inc..
He has been independent since 2015 and currently focuses on fashion and portraits for catalogs and magazines.
He is going to continue to consistently present his work through the personal space Photo Gallery he created for this project.