私の写真が悲しいと言う人もいる。
悲哀を感じさせるような社会の問題点が反映されているのかもしれません。
でも、私にとっては、アイディアの一部です。

 
 
Some people say my photos are sad.
Maybe they reflect the problems of our society that make them sad.
But for me, they are part of an idea.

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前作の「愛情観察」から約3年経過しました。
私の心がけている「愛情観察」という観念は、常に変わらない定まった、可能な限りナチュラルな視点で、相手を観察することとしています。
この3年という時間、自分では何も変わらない視点で写真を撮っているつもりでした。しかしその期間に撮りためた写真群を抜粋し、こうやってまとめ振り返ってみると私の、そして私を取り巻くすべての要素が、当然ながら「無常」であることを肌で実感いたしました。この移ろいを自らの写真から感じることで、私はさらに今後の人生においてこの「愛情観察」を継続していこうと心に決めた次第です。

 
 
It has been almost three years since my last “LOOK OF LOVE”.
My conception of “LOOK OF LOVE” is to always observe others from a fixed, unchanging, and as natural a viewpoint as possible.
For the past three years, I thought I was taking pictures from the same perspective. However, when I look back on the photos I took during that period, I realized that I, and all the elements that surround me, are naturally “impermanent. By feeling this transition through my own photographs, I have made up my mind to continue this “observation of love” in my future life.

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model : Many

世の中には色々な愛や愛情表現の形が存在しているが、写真を撮り、相手は撮られる事で成り立つ両者の関係性は他のあらゆる愛情表現の形とも引けを取らないほどにユニークで完全、そして神秘的なものだ。
写真で結ばれたふたりはお互いの存在を確かめ合い、そしてまた各々の人生へと戻って行く。
以前とは少し異なった自己を内に秘めて。

 
 
There are many forms of love and affection in the world, but the relationship between two people, one taking photographs and the other being photographed, is as unique, complete, and mysterious as any other form of affection.
The two, united by the photograph, confirm each other’s existence, and then return to their own lives.
They return to their own lives, each with a slightly different self inside.

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model :Ran Taniguchi

Countless love stories are born every day in movies.
I don’t dislike ordinary love stories either, but I’m more concerned about the other side of love stories.
In the five stories I’m going to introduce from now, ones that show craziness from the beginning, and others that became abnormal love before they noticed them.
Even if humans look decent, there is a possibility that anyone can become a pervert. Sometimes a side that I didn’t know appears because loving too much. That’s why love is a monster.

BAD GUY

Korea(2001)
Directed by Kim Ki-du

Hangi, a thug man, fell in love with a college student Sona at first sight and fell in love.
This is a story of the cruel love of a man who can only be involved by submerging his beloved woman into the world he lives in.
I don’t understand that love that can only be conveyed by tattering and hurting the other person. There’s no way I can understand something like this.
A woman standing at a dead end has no choice but to hate or love the man drives her in.
From the standpoint of a woman, it’s really a crazy story until the end, but I wonder how many people might understand this somehow? I’m very interested in it.

Blue Velvet

America(1986)
Directed by David Lynch

An ear cut out in a strange vacant lot.
It’s a gateway to another world that’s too deep for young adolescents.
True love was hidden in the love triangle that began to move imperceptibly, and each was looking for something else to replace, and emptiness was floating.
Unique, racy, and erotic.
While giving a moderate sense of disgust, it grabs the audience with a strong impression of images and music that draws them in and does not let go.
It is a truly unique work that leaves an impression that all the balance is exquisitely combined and sticks to the viewer’s memory.
Maybe it takes a while to wake up from such a deep mysterious world?

The skin I Live in

Spain(2011)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

This is an amazing movie full of immoral and insanity.
He is betrayed by his beloved wife, rejected by his daughter, and lost them at last. The madness to fill this cruel sense of loss keeps Robert alive.
But no matter how much it looks like the face of a loved one, the essence of the soul cannot be remodeled.
If you interpret this as a perverted movie full of fetishism by a mad scientist, this is definitely a disgusting movie,
Actually, it gives meaning to the crazy love with a solid mystery suspense plot.
The wrong form of love only leaves emptiness.
Even so, people foolishly want to drown in abnormal love.

Nocturnal Animals

America(2016)
Directed by Tom Ford

A work with a sense of tension that fuels a sense of anxiety even in a quiet state. Anyway, I had the impression that it was a cinematic story, with attention to detail in both visual beauty and plot.
Suddenly, the world of the novel sent by her ex-husband Edward entered the perfect bourgeois life of Susan, and I, along with Susan, was drawn into the deep world of Edward and entered the story.
Is it love? Is it revenge? I felt that this is a strong revenge from Edward to Susan, which seems to be enough to remain for a lifetime.
On the other side of love, it is possible that there will be only hatred, not love.

Birds she doesn’t know their names

Japan(2017)
Directed by Kazuya Shiraishi

This is a story of the other side of love with an ugly, vile man and a disgusting woman.
Everyone has a vulgar other face, and that side of face does not hesitate to hurt people.
It depicts a lot of disgusting duality of humans that I don’t want to know, but I have to know. Even though it’s the ultimate love story, there’s a lot of cruelty scenes until the end that makes me want to run away.
What is particularly impressive in this movie is their eating scene. The yakiniku scene was pretty scary.
It’s looks an normal scene if I cut it out, but when I watched this movie, I was convinced that the they are not normal after all.

 
 
 
 
 
 
mamiko kikuchi, who has been with us since vol.21.This time, we will introduce five films from the “Love that has gone too far” series.

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毎日を生き抜くための強い装備　美しい顔、たくさんのお金、類い稀なる才能、人望や清らかな心
ああわたしは全部ない　もってる人羨ましい　喉から手が出るくらい欲しい
私はどうやったって彼らのような闘い方はできない
遠回りになるかも、今のところたいして強くないけど、よわよわな私が私として生きていくにはこれだ
カメラ装備して街へ

 
 
A beautiful face, lots of money, exceptional talent, popularity and a pure heart.
Oh, I don’t have it all, and I envy those who do. I want it all so bad I can’t even get my hands around it.
I can’t fight like them no matter what I do
It may be a long way off, I’m not very strong at the moment, but it’s the only way I can live as me.
Equip yourself with a camera and go to town.

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model : me

服の趣味も髪色も性格も、変わってきた分、何人もの自分がいる。
他人が撮る自分、自分が撮る自分。

 
 
A self taken by others, and a self taken by myself.

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