Under The Heavens


  • Photographer
    Fumio Tanai
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Free-lance
  • Date of Photograph
    2009
Story

I felt oppressed by the environment when I stood on the street in NY the first time, I think because the relationships between a person, buildings and Heavens have changed greatly since 9.11. 2001 in my own mind, if not in others.

I had been just standing around on the street for several days without marking much progress, when something happened to me; a strange feeling stirred inside - akin to when one can sense the body temperature of passers by -and I felt both relieved and buoyed up by this promise of creativity.
Where was the sensation from?

At that time, New Yorkers were passing by at a trot.
"People who have the same occupation resemble each other in appearance," someone has said. New York city passers-by are members of every race and nation of the world and they have various occupations. We are able to imagine "types", temperaments and classes of people in NYC from their belongings.
However, "Could we imagine their type and occupation as vividly when they are moving in their own time at their own pace?"

One day these questions arose, so I started to take photographs of them.

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