Tube, street photography collection in London
35mm black & white shot on film
In Hiroshi Sugimoto's early project of works, Theaters, he observed and photographed one entire movie with one long non- stop shot of exposure. He fixed the shutter as the movie started, and clicked the shutter closed as it ended. The result is a one shiny screen with audiences watching it. To audiences of the movie, the movie is the narrative. Yet to audiences of Hiroshi's work, the narrative becomes absent, left with imaginations of the story and details aside from the screen, for us. How about in real life? In real life, we, the day-to-day people, are the narratives "acting" in the "movie" of our life. We are also the audiences of this "movie". There are always so many of us in this "movie" of our life, crowded and kept encountering each other. We, with each other, fulfilled. When we pull ourselves out of the pictures, the world becomes "the shiny screen"...
When we pull ourselves out of the picture, the absent creates/leaves us with imaginations of the story and details that we don’t normally see. Like in the underground stations, where always crowded by people, now suddenly is empty. It causes an absurdity forcing people to observe the place, the "stage" of the "movie". We observe more carefully to the often-forgotten details, and we use our imagination to fill our memories of the "stage".
