At the very beginning, a photo is produced from a photographer's specific perspective. However, when it is presented in front of different viewers, various perspectives will be developed by the viewer, which will enrich the content of the photo.
The past cannot be captured by the present. And the future also cannot be captured by the present. The present can only be captured in the moment. All we need to do is record the present as it is.
Monochrome photography is abstract and symbolic. One can simply say that it is a dream world.
I want to look at everything and capture everything. Of course, in reality, that's impossible, but that's my intention.
Every city, no matter how it looks, is a work of art.
Nowadays, people take photos casually, especially of their daily lives. This casual attitude towards photography is the same as mine. There is nothing right or wrong about it.
Wherever I am, I will try my best to feel everything around me. Extending my senses to the furtherst corner I can see. A dim light in a shadowy environment fascinates me. As a photographer, I will instantly capture everything that interests me.
Photography is the capture of the very present moment. Therefore, taking a photo of the present is to preserve it. This is the essence of photography.
I don't see photography as an artistic act of creating 'art pieces'. I've always thought of it as making copies [of life].
Monochrome has stronger elements of abstraction or symbolism. There is perhaps an element of taking you to another place. Colour is something more vulgar. Because the colour is making the decisions, it feels vulgar and that seems to me to be the difference.
I guess I want to say that photography, for me, isn't the most charming or unbearably fun thing I could do. But at the same time I can't help but find it a medium and a habit that is quite... seductive.
Now, cameras automatically load film. But in the old days, after loading new film, you'd have to click the shutter a bunch of times to advance the film. And of course, some image of the floor, or the sky... or someone nearby would end up in the film. I used to discard those images, but then I started to wonder 'Why don't these make the cut?'.
The camera I use is what you call a compact camera. A compact camera looks a little like a toy. For the person being photographed, it's not as intimidating. If you have a big 35mm camera and lots of fancy equipment, people tend to shy away from you.
When I was young, I used to be constantly irritated; always thinking, 'What is photography?' or 'Why am I taking photographs?'. I began to pick up negatives that my friends would discard and say, 'Lets use these too'. I said to myself, 'These are also the images of the world'. That simple thought was the starting point. Once I thought that way, anything was possible.
I want to take a lot of 'nasty' photographs.
I walk around, forms appear in my field of vision, and I click the shutter.
As long as I'm alive, I want to shoot and capture as many moments as I can. In the time that I have been given, I want to continue taking photographs until the end.
I don't walk around with a certain concept, choosing what to shoot and what not to. I don't think about anything at all.
Going hand in hand with the camera... that's my life.
Photography is taking pictures of common manners and customs.
It's the people who observe my work that give it any kind of meaning. I just continue to offer them what I've captured with my mind and body.
I think that the most important thing that photography can do is to relate both the photographer and the viewer's memories. At first sight a photograph looks straightforward as it slices off a scene or moment in time. But the images that photography captures are actually ambiguous. And it's because of that ambiguity that I like photography.
Everyone has desires. The quality and the volume of those desires change with age, but that desire is always serious and real. Photography is an expression of those desires.
I like taking snapshots that show the movement of both myself and the outside world.
At the very beginning, a photo is produced from a photographer's specific perspective. However, when it is presented in front of different viewers, various perspectives will be developed by the viewer, which will enrich the content of the photo.
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