From that place --- A black fragmentary passage

Preface



I always thought.

I feel want to do collaboration with the people who bore a big big wound in a heart.

It may have been the feeling that was heated because myself was a crime victim first.

However, it grew thought to want to face them among me ahead of personal thought of such me intensely gradually.

And they gathered when I called out to them decisively.

It is people appearing in the photograph this time.

At first I want to inform it that I gather to them earlier above all, and thank you.




I have them who are a crime victim run before a camera.

And I run after them.

The collaboration between crime victims was realized in that way.

The beach of still cold April.

The photography began in improvising.



Black clothes and white clothes.

It is me to have said that I want them to prepare for each.

A hopeless pain to lodge itself in in them.

Hope awful, to strongly glisten that was hidden in them at the same time.

I want to photograph the both.

I wanted to symbolize it with black clothes and white clothes.

We were almost swallowed up many times on the way by a wave.

We were about to fall down in a wave many times.

They still contribute to the fact that it was not parted with a camera me.

They revealed oneself with all one's might without being concerned before me of the first meeting.

Therefore I was supported by the strength and was able to photograph it till the last.

But this was what I keenly realized later, but, as for the photography of the situation partner, it was very difficult.

All people are the first meeting, besides.

Furthermore, the all the members have the wound of a deep deep heart so as to be immeasurable.

Work that I have them reveal it without my penetrating to their wound, and and I still keep it to the image of the one flake.

There was not the photography that was such difficult for me till now.

I sent several prints to all the participants after photography.

Perhaps I will not need to forget the words that returned then throughout the life.

Common one of the inside is such words.

It "is unbelievable". I laugh.

We were able to still do such a face

We had laughing days when we were not able to do it at all.

Us had the days when it did not come true even to move an inch.

We were not able to believe a person.

There were days to wish that we wanted to liquidate oneself from the world if we could do it.

Still.

They certainly laughed at that time.

They certainly cried on that day.

And they strongly hugged the shoulder of the person whom the neighbor had naturally.

There is one section of the story of such them in this photograph.


There is still the person remaining standing in a pain in them.

There is right the person to be in the middle of the fight now.

They still live.




Finally.

A crime will not need to disappear as far as we are human beings.

It is any kind of small crime, but the human being repeats itself.

It may be to be a thing without the way helplessly as far as a human being is a human being.

However.

If there is an assailant for a crime, there is the victim.

There is not the prescription to the victim.

Even if an assailant has it, there is not the prescription to a victim.

Never forget it to you.

Again.

Possibly you may become a victim even tomorrow.

Or you may become an assailant.

I want you to remember that it is never other people's affairs.

And when you have become a victim.

Do not lose that I laugh even if you suffer the wound of the heart that no matter how is deep.

Do not forget to be pleased with getting angry at your crying either.

Here is the vigor witness.

Even if we are hurt no matter how deeply, we live.

You do not forget that it is a human method to be able to do.