RECORD NO.25
eBook
Published on
March 1, 2014
ebook Published on
August 21, 2014
I visited Okinawa for the first time in 1974.
It was a short one-week stay together with some of my senior photographers, and for some reason I kept sensing that very same dazzling light there right from the time of my arrival up to departure. As if engraved in my memory, the sensation of that somewhat “physiological” light keeps coming back to me every time I return to Okinawa still today. In other words, no matter what other factors may come into play, what I associate with Okinawa is first and foremost a very personal condition of being irradiated and embraced by “light”.
The light in the back-alleys of Naha; the light that completely environs a certain beach; the light that illuminates the avenues around the military base; and the light that showers the gusuku (castle) hills. To me, the light of Okinawa always presents itself with a particular kind of quality.
It is perhaps a matter of reasonably abstracted sensuality.
Mesrnerized by the light, and by the wind…
-DAIDO MORIYAMA
Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Moriyama Daido Photo Foundation
