Kota Shoji Interview
Light Boxies (LB): Did you first work as a stylist's assistant, Mr. Shoji ?
Kota Shoji(S)
Yes, I did it for about a year and a half or two, and then I started it myself, and I did it for about seven or eight years. Well, for the last year and a half or two, I had a period where I was taking pictures and doing stylist work. It's a bit like that.
LB : Doesn't the photo have an assistant?
S: I don't have an assistant in the picture.
LB : As is?
S: You're self-taught.
I didn't start out with the intention of making photography my job. It's like being able to get a job out of the blue without anyone else knowing why.
LB : Do you like clothes? Or rather?
S : I liked making visuals, and when I was styling, I was actually directing a lot and wanted to do something like making pictures, so I got into photography as an extension of that.
LB : You're more of a photographer?
S: Yeah, that's right. I loved seeing the pictures.
Well, there were some photographers that I liked, so I didn't want to go back to the context of a photo magazine or anything like that.
I liked it because I was in the fashion business.
It wasn't until I started taking pictures myself that I started looking at the work of so-called "photographers" and studying photo books.
LB : What was your favorite thing about being a fashion photographer?
Nick Knight?
S: Ah, (laughs) But I liked purple magazine rather than anything else.
LB : Olivier Zahm?
S :Elein Fleiss rather than Olivier
I had seen pictures of Chikara Suzuki and Kyoji Takahashi, and I liked Takashi Homma. It's not that I like it, but I've always liked timeless things like that.
It may have been out of line with the so-called fashion world trends. Something that was originally nothing, or maybe my current base hasn't changed, something sensory.
LB :There's the Purple brand, and the story direction, and it's completely finished and the complete opposite of Vogue or Harper's Bazaar....
S : Quite the opposite, yes.
LB : We have a style and we just go with it.
S : Yes, that's right. It's not like Purple is an independent magazine right now.
It's completely different from when I was watching it, but I really liked Purple when we were independent and did our own thing, when we didn't have a lot of ads.
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