I saw something amazing.
I happened to drop in at the Canon Gallery S in Shinagawa, where a photography exhibition by Joe Nishijima, “Surreal World,” was being held.
What’s amazing is the photo, what’s amazing is the subject. My already limited vocabulary is blown away, and all I can say is ‘amazing’. What is this?
If there is a thing called emotion residing in my pitiful brain stem, it was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and shaken as hard as it could.
This photographer’s style is to enter and take photos (with permission, of course) in the particularly hard-to-enter zones of hard-to-enter areas such as expressways, aircraft, shipyards, nuclear fusion, rockets, and defense. I was overwhelmed by the “surrealistic pictures” that can be taken in a world that is as real as it gets, the extreme north of this world’s reality.
As Mr. Nishijima was present at the venue, I was able to speak with him for a little while.
– I was so overwhelmed that I lost the power of speech. These are amazing photos and amazing subjects.
“I know, right? The hardest part is getting permission to take the photos.”
– It seems like you’re taking photos of the unique steel shine at the very depths of a special world, but how do you do the lighting?
“I don’t usually bring my own lighting equipment. The reason for this is that the subjects are usually too big for the lights to be of any use. So finding good light is an important part of my job.”
Even if I had a thousand words, they would not be enough to describe it. Or rather, I don’t have the right words to describe it.
If you are even a little bit interested, I would recommend that you visit the exhibition at least once before it closes on February 4th.
