『SUNNY』
¥3,500
220x260mm / 96p / Hard cover
350 copies
Published in 2015 PINE TREE BOOKS
都会でも、手つかずの大自然でもない。
人の営みと自然の境界線をなぞるような、そんな世界を見ていたい。
美しく怖い向こう側を、大きな季節の光に包まれながら覗き込むように見ていたいのだ。
そこでは誰もが驚くようなことは起きないかもしれないが、いつまでもあたり前の景色に喜べる自分でありたいと思う。
喜びは、僕の心を光でいっぱいにしてくれる。
その光が消えて忘れてしまわないように、僕はこれからもシャッターを押し続ける。
光溢れた日本の景色。
心に溢れる光は、生きる喜びの光なのだ。
＜本書あとがきより＞
This was the first time I had seen a brown bear catching a pink salmon swimming upstream. I was aboard my friend's small fishing boat, being thrown about by strong winds and the raging tide just off Rusha Bay in the Shiretoko Peninsula, as I tried desperately to steady my camera.
The bear on the other side of the bay didn't notice us, as it was too engrossed in the fish before it. My friend said to me, "Don't take such a clichéd photo!" But, overwhelmed by the scene unfolding before my eyes, I couldn't care less if it was a cliché.
Although it didn't seem as though I could reach the other side, I feel like this distance has taught me the place in which I stand.
<From Afterword>