BEYOND THE TRAIN WINDOW

BEYOND THE TRAIN WINDOW

Raised on a small island with no trains, it was my childhood dream to go on a train for an exciting adventure.Even after my dream has came true when I moved to an urban area for university, watching the sights passing through a train window was still somewhat spacial.These pictures were the challenges to capture the scene of my dreams taken from a train window.

The picture was digital processed by layering some images to create a multi-exposure like effect.By doing this, it was possible to combine the changing sights taken from a train window as a single image which different time and destination coexists.

Now the trains are part of my life and I often travels around Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe in Japan.It was an attempt to capture the surface of my life’s sphere and condense it into a picture.I want to call the scene made by this “The Face of Places.”And this is the scene of the dream I imagined as a child.

電車のない島で育った私には、電車に乗るということは憧れでした。大学進学のために故郷から街へと引っ越してから今まで、私は電車に乗る度、よく外の景色を眺めています。

同じ窓から撮られた複数枚の写真をデジタル処理で多重露光のように重ねることで、1枚の写真を作り出しています。写真を重ねることで時間と距離を圧縮し、乗車中に見た景色を一枚に落とし込むことができます。この方法によって私の生活圏、具体的には京都、大阪、神戸近辺の景色の表層を浮き彫りにしようと試みています。こうして見える景色は「地域の様相(The Face of Place)」だと考えています。そして、この写真たちは憧れていた景色のカタログでもあるのです。