My origin photographs Kazumasa Harada

This is a collection of photographs taken by Japanese photographer Kazumasa Harada while in Germany following the COVID-19 pandemic and photographs taken in Tokyo from a new perspective after returning to Japan. "I re-examined the medium of photography and its fundamental principles during my stay in Germany," he says of the work. Although it is an extension of his career to date, it has a completely different mood. Taken in different cities in East and West, these photographs were shot from an observational perspective using orthodox photography techniques, as if the photographer himself were a "recording medium that receives light and marks time." The mix of snippets from ubiquitous scenes seems to yield the photographs up as a single picture that transcends time and place while at the same time tracing Harada's own process of examination. The intermingling of monochrome and color composing this volume creates a story that should never have existed. The book provides a sense of his growth and change as a photographer, expressing his own perspective and experience in a new way through the medium of photography. Editing and design: Hikari Machiguchi (Match and Company Co., Ltd.)