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Tokyo! Is no one watching these shiny landscapes?
Straight lines cross, planes reflect in one other,
various materials compete against each other.
In this world which is all spawned by anonymous brains
I try to see things afresh, with my own eyes,
through the camera's eye. I am hoping to be
"an observer".
Though no one asked me for it.
Taking a picture is a perverse act, basically. But,
the world already has encountered a great deal of
perversity
in the last 150 years or so, the modern age.
The LORD HATH BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE WORLD WHICH HE BUILT.
WE HAVE COME TO LIVE HERE IN THE SMALL, AS THE PLEBS.
The evening city has glassed itself with the building's glass wall.
I saw it, and I thought it beautiful.
And though I do not want to put beauty in my pictures,
I cannot give up beauty anyhow -- it forces itself in.
translated from the Japanese by This is My Home Literary Trajections
*You can read here how the translation team "This is My Home...." translated this writing into English.
Seidoh Sujaku
He was born in Japan in 1959. From 1980 to
1987 he composed minimalistic music and performed music as a member of an ensemble Kaku-teien(Das Buch der hängenden Gärten). He jointly participated in an art exhibition called "LIVE ART" at the Axis gallery in Tokyo in 1982. He had a sound installation and performed with a synthesizer ensemble there. In 1997 he started to take pictures. Since 1999 he has been photographing for commercial media, preparing portraits for magazines "Cut" and "Elle Japon". He has his first one-person show "Judo Shashin" (Passive-Active Photography) at the INAX Gallery 2 in Tokyo in May 2001.
Seidoh Sujaku official website
Copyright 2001 by Seidoh SUJAKU
Photograph Copyright 2001 by Seidoh SUJAKU
English translation Copyright 2001 by This is My Home Literary Trajections
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