“These photos were taken from what I’d rather
describe as “a promenader’s view”. ”
-DAIDO MORIYAMA
”That’s because it surely is easy to release the shutter button and take pictures, but that consious sense of distance that hovers in the space between the photographer and the photographed always contains some severe and delicate issues beyond imagination.”
-DAIDO MORIYAMA (Experts from the original text of Record No.27)
The photos included in “RECORD : No.27” are all taken in Hong Kong in March 2014.This is the first issue of RECORD series with the mixture of Color and Monochrome photos. The images here contains the symbolic monochromatic vision and the worldly visions in color. And then the TV screen of anti government activists flooding all around the city and the streets where he also walked and snapped the photos.
“I have no choice but to think once again about myself, about photography, about the world, about the stance of photographing things, and about the significance of snapshots.”
Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Moriyama Daido Photo Foundation