People frequently use such highly pathetic expressions as “wander around the streets.” As far as I’m concerned, I’ve been wandering around the streets for as long as I can remember. Regardless of all the things that may have occurred here and there during the twenty years that passed before I picked up the camera, as well as over the fifty years with the camera that followed, I spent most of my time out in the streets, and that’s in fact where I’m still hanging around today. It’s the same thing with the camera. I did eventually pick it up one day, but while trying out this and that, I never managed to get things under control, as a result of which I’m still not even sure which way to go.
This issue of Record features pictures for my Hokkaido exhibition that opens this summer at Otaru and other places, taken during two days of wandering around the area‘s streets.
-DAIDO MORIYAMA
Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Moriyama Daido Photo Foundation