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It was spring - or was it autumn?
Boy K, you timidly clicked the shutter of the camera aiming at the cow on the bank.
It appeared as an avatar of the vast, unconquerable World to the boy's eyes.
Every night you were looking up at the Great Nebula of Orion in silence.
In the eyepiece of the telescope, the time was stretched to billions of light years and it was dancing - wasn't it?
Diodes, transistors, condensers, variable condensers, and resistors...
You soldered the pieces on the board, and were fascinated with the faint voice of the self-made radio.
The future seen through the thin three legs of a transistor was trembling with uncertainty - it was!
What were you thinking? What were you dreaming?
I'm losing the touch of the World, and I want to meet you again, Boy K.
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Over there, on the road
Somebody is coming
He is carrying a digital camera
A man in his late forties
1962. Odate-shi, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Taken with a Fujipet Camera.
translated from the Japanese by YAMAMOTO Yuji(CosmosHouse)
Norio Kobayashi
He was born in Akita prefecture(the north of Japan) in 1952. He had his first camera when he was nine years old. It was just a child's camera, but he remembers that it performed very well. He started taking pictures, and continued constantly, through high school and during his dentistry university studies. He left university and began to study at a photography school. He published his first work, "LANDSCAPES" in 1986, and won a prize for the book next year. His next publication, "FIRST LIGHT"(in 1992), won a prize which was the best prize for a photographer in Japan in the year. Recently he started publishing his work on the internet. And he is using a digital camera very aggressively. He thinks that a digital camera and the internet are wonderful tools for his artistic expression. His personal homepage is here.
Copyright 2001 by Norio Kobayashi
Photograph Copyright 1962 by Norio Kobayashi
translation Copyright 2001 by YAMAMOTO Yuji
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