From January 2012, I moved in around Sunset Park in Brooklyn. The residential population in the vast Sunset Park district from Upper New York Bay to Ninth Avenue is over one hundred thousand. But to put it more simply, it is a civilian area mixed with all walks of life. White people, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican immigrants, Poles, and Chinese live here; there are warehouses and factories and silent and obscure waterfront facilities; standing on the heights of the park, one can overlook Manhattan scenery and the Statue of Liberty. My photography work began from the recording of the surrounding scenery of Sunset Park where I live. I believe an artist can find in the appearance of chaos a spiritual resonance from the scenery in an instance through photography. The city is often regarded as having unique characteristics as a human being does. The ethos of the districts can also be deciphered as a kind of lifestyle because the scene of a place is composed of the land and countless people related. I then began to treat the landscapes of the different districts in the city as portraits. Man and environment were taken as a whole. While photographing these people, I especially reflected the link between the people and the environment.
What I want to do is not emphasize the snapshot recording of the brief moments of people moving on the streets, but somewhat distance the viewer in order to see the people’s true existence in the urban landscape. This distance has not been pulled too far as to make the people in the photographs too small and lose the temperature of the role. On the surface of the pictures, the urban landscape is like a stage, and the people are performers. This is a dramatic metaphor. Every person in the photographs, even people of different ethnicities, positions, occupations, and age, appear in the same layout, all living on the same stage of life.
World Theater, New York－12th Street
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