庵の人々　The Ten Foot Square Hut 2010-2019 (ZINE)

庵の人々 The Ten Foot Square Hut 2010-2019

Published on October 1st, 2019

ZINE, 36page

ニコンサロン銀座/大阪での写真展に合わせて発行した冊子です。

https://www.nikon-image.com/activity/exhibition/salon/events/201706/20191030.html

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都市の片隅に生きる人々の撮影を続け、10年が経とうとしている。そこには普段見過ごしていて目にすることのない、多様な人間模様や生活空間が広がっていた。家、小屋、寝床、ブルーシート、テント…どれともつかない彼らの住まいを私は“庵”と名付けることにした。出会いと対話を重ね、人とその庵を撮影していくほどに、“野宿者”、“ホームレス”という言葉は解体されていく。常に移り変わる季節、風景。現代社会や自己の中にあるバイアス。さらには、時間、環境、自由、公共、存在…など、様々な考えや思想が交差しては流れ去っていく。そして何気なく過ごしている日常への視点が少しずつ変化していくのを感じている。（野口健吾）

It has been almost 10 years since I started photographing those who reside in the little corner of the big cities. Through taking photographs, I witnessed a diversity of lifestyles and uniqueness that each space has, with which we rarely have contact in our ordinary daily life.House. Hut. Bed. Blue poly tarp. Tent. It was confusing to label such living space with the terms that I know of, so I decided to call them “Iori,” which is a small temporary hut. Iori was home to monks or hermits in the old days and is often mentioned in Japanese poetry, Haiku, as a motif that illustrates simple living of Japanese.As I became acquainted with more of these people and repeatedly photographed them and their Iori while building relationships, the image that I had for the words, “vagabond” and “homeless,” began to collapse.Seasons and sceneries never stays the same. So too, it is with the world we live in today and bias that we subconsciously hold. Time. Environment. Freedom. Publicness. Existence. All thoughts and philosophies towards such issues appear in turns and starts drifting through my mind.I have just started to realize that the way I perceive my ordinary daily life is slowly changing.