An exhibition "Hikari no Syashin - ひかりの写真" had been held in september 2008 at an art space called graffiti in Kochi (高知) in Japan. The title means "Photography of light" in japanese. it may includes grammatically an overlap when I say it in English, because the word "Photography" itself originally means "drawing with light". In japanese however it doesn't. The word literally means "recoding truth" in japanese, while it just describes only fundamental elements of the technic in european languages. So my idea about this exhibition was to show the contrast between the word "写真 Syashin"(Photography) and actual pictures which look completely different from reality, but without any digital manipulation.

For me it's also important to hold such exhibition in my small home town. Japanese society is highly centralized, not only politically but also economically and culturally. The social structure must be changed. What I can do now to change the cultural situation in Japan is very small thing, because I'm not there but studying in berlin. Neverthless there are local people who are trying to, so I am. I will keep doing it in any case.