I came across the work of Toshihiro Oshima via the latest edition of Quadrat Magazine... and having been impressed by the expressive qualities of his work I began to investigate further...
Tommy was born in Tokyo in 1960 and has apparently been taking photo's since he was 6 years old, he is always praised for his ability to transform the mundane of Tokyo street life into something mystical and mysterious....
Working almost exclusively with film he uses a mesmerizing amount of different camera's to capture his images, he quotes more than 20 on his Flickr page..!! He is also a quite prolific poster and you will see new images uploaded almost everyday...
He states that "The crystal elements of my eyes are the Looking Glass to observe the world. My mind is the Dark Room which carries the Negative film inside. Then the Photographs are the representation of the Image which is reflected through the Prism of Soul.
Photographs won't tell any truth, but only gives us the bits and elements waking up from our mind's eye.
....but then,the question is what's the "truth"? :)"........
I don't know what you think, but I always find the imagery from Japan to be much less superficial than images from the West, which tend to be much more direct and easier to 'get'.
I also see that just as much importance, if not more in certain circumstances, is put into the out of focus parts of the images.
If you have sometime to look around his Flickr stream, do take the opportunity to do so, you won't be disappointed...
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