Photopaper 66/67 by Takano Ryudai, Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke. Published 2021.
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From a dialogue between Katja Stuke, Olive Sieber and Takano Ryudai: I understand ‚Deep Japan’ as an area left behind by development and so the appearance and way of life of the community continues as it was a long time ago. Some districts in the North-East of Tokyo have a complicated and difficult past which you can still feel. In some parts there are still problems with stigmatisation. We often – not only in Japan – think about landscape and identity, landscape and belonging. How do you think photography can make these questions visible? In order to make these questions visible, a photographer has to have objective consciousness – you just record the target. I said “conscious”, but in this context, it means something unconscious, like an unintended physical reaction. I believe that camera precisely replicates the photographer’s subconscious awareness because of its mechanical accuracy.«