Mountain Photographer Torahiko
Takashi Homma
(ホンマタカシ) Photo-cards Being there

Being there

ISBN 978-4-908512-94-4

ただ、その折の沖縄行きは、とくに撮影が目当てだったわけではなくて、東松照明、細江英公、深瀬昌久、荒木経惟、そしてぼく、という当時在京の5名の写真家が、沖縄在住の写真家や写真愛好家の方々10数名を対象に、写真撮影をメインテーマにした、フォト・ワークショップを開催して、ぼくの初の沖縄行きは、その交流会への参加が目的だったわけです。

外房線の片田舎に居を構えて3年近く経った頃、千葉県東部・南部をたびたび車でまわりながら、かつては観光地として訪れていた場所が最早日常の範囲にあることに気付いた。

Instead of square miles of cotton fields I saw its trace in small cardboard boxes

Mountain Photographer Torahiko<br />Takashi Homma<br />(ホンマタカシ) Photo-cards Being thereI met him at a mountain hot spring. His back was big like a mountain. He called himself Torahiko. He was shooting mountains. He used to take fashion photographs in Tokyo, but got fed up. So he came to the mountain. He took me with him to the mountain. It stretched on endlessly, big and tall. I could barely manage to keep up. Trailing behind, on follow him as I looked at his back. At the mountaintop we ate rice balls. They were very tasty. Since then,