落選の写真

「A walk at dusk」

毎年応募しているSony World Photography Awardへ今年も応募したものの、すべて落選したので、その写真とステートメントを書き残しておきたいと思います。この賞は「その年に撮影した写真」が応募規定なので、来年また同じ写真を応募できません。供養です。供養……。
これが2021年の自分の考えていたことで出来る範囲での全力だったと、将来恥ずかしくなるだろう事を含めて残しておくと面白いかなと思いました。たとえば5年後、ちゃんとこれが「若かったな」と思えるくらいに成長していたいものです。
タイトルとキャプションは英語でという規定なので、英語です。といっても日本語で書いたものを翻訳サイトのDEEPLにかけて、わかる範囲でチェックしただけのものです。
おそらく初手からステートメントを含めてチェックされることはなくて、まずは写真をパーっとみてピックアップされるのだと思うので、ここの英語力が審査に影響するとしたら本当に最後の最後だと思います。
前の記事にも書きましたが、今回はとにかく「自分の気に入っているものを投げてみよう」という事で応募しているので、積極的に取りに行こうという気合はありません（だからとりあえず英語力は気にしてないという言い訳です）。当然気合をいれたところでとれるというものでは全然ないのですが。

「like it!」

I took this photo of a bagworm hanging in the park, giving a thumbs up to a flower. Nice!

「Our life is...」

This photo was inspired by the poem "Life is" by Hiroshi Yoshino.
"The world is probably
The sum of others
But
each other
Fulfilling a lack.
We don't know
Without being told
We are the ones who are being spread about
We can be indifferent to each other.
Sometimes
A relationship in which we are allowed to feel annoyance
In that way
Why is the world so loosely structured?
Why?"

「On our relationship with the world」

Flowers and flies have a mutually necessary relationship. Maybe it's the same relationship between me and some unknown stranger. One day, you and I will become flowers and flies for someone else.
There is a poem by hirosi YOSHINO that means something like that. I am developing this photo from that inspiration.

「at The end of the day」

The frames of the film rattled around as I reflected on the day. I hope that the most recent frame is a happy scene.

「Cocoon in the drizzle」

A building that has appeared in the West Shinjuku area, a gaping hole in Tokyo's never-ending redevelopment. Shaped like a cocoon, it bears the name Cocoon Tower.
One day I saw this building sinking in the rain. The dignified figure is waiting patiently for the next buildings to appear over the next few decades.

「I am thou, thou art I」

Is the "figure" in the photo the person herself?　This theme is something I always think about when I take portraits. How much of the subject's appearance, clothing, hairstyle, facial expressions, etc., are true to their essence?
How much of the light, shadow, shape, and color is the main, and how much is the persona?
Projecting these questions, I included her shadow in the angle of view and photographed her.

「We who move, tremble, and exist.」

I developed the theme "We are subatomic particles travelling through space on the Earth".
Even if we stay on the coordinate axis on the earth, the coordinate axis in the universe is always moving, because we are in the motion of orbiting the sun.
We are always uncertain and at the same time we know that we are. This sounds like a setting for SF, but it is our reality.

「a certain wall」

This is a wall in the corner of Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The center of the wall is illuminated by a fluorescent light, and probably had some kind of advertisement on it in the past. Now it is blank, just like this.
When I passed by here, I thought this place was so beautiful that I stopped walking to look at it.
I don't know why. Maybe I don't need to know. Maybe there is no reason.
I took a picture of the beautiful wall and developed it just as I felt it.

「Dissolve, remain」

I took this photo with my friend and dancer Yu-ki san. The theme of the day was "What is left when the dancer's body disappears?”
We wanted to see the essence of Yu-ki san.
She brought her grandmother's kimono (traditional Japanese clothing) and put it on, and I submerged her in the water.

「Meld together」

The models are two dancers. I wondered what would remain of the dancers when I removed their bodies.
Is it the will? Or is it the heart? Or is it Qualia?
Without the body, can they melt and merge? Would they become one?

「The roots of my tree」

There are times when humans get excited about inorganic objects as if they were human limbs. For me, this is the case with this root. It is very erotic. I take a lot of pictures of it.
The lumpy roots covering the soft parts, the trunk that seems to be clinging to something, the long body. It's a root, so it's safe.
The human imagination is limitless, I think.

「Dog and cat, or black and white, or obedient and uninhibited」

There was a dog and a cat in the park.

以上です。
ほかにも数枚応募しているのですが（直前になると応募枠増やしてくれる）そちらは今回の「自分の気に入っているものを投げてみよう」とは少し外れているので載せませんでした。
今年もできるだけよい撮影をしたい。色々考えて、形にして、ひとつひとつ自分の課題を克服していきたいです。
主な課題は自分の心のありようです。

どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

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