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“The work is something which is taken in nebraska and South Dakota from 2002 extending through 2004. That preceding year, the writer had studied abroad in Japan. It started taking the photograph as the expedient which searches the world that time, but after return home, not to leak to the example of the foreign life experience person, with a richer sensitivity you look at your own hometown it reached the point where. When and, taking the photograph in Japan, while operating the camera in the same way, around and it reached the point where it has facing and relating through the tool, camera. The viewpoint for the American Nakanishi section of the writer is different from any which the American popular culture sees. The kind of stereotype which the mass media advertises all together compared to, the people over there, the land over there attracts the interest of the writer.
As for the latest work, it is something which it photographed as the attempt which understands the place where the writer grows again visual. Is question, is record the work where it is the reaction, for the writer, through the photograph. Monochrome 35 point.

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John Sypal (John rhinoceros pal)
1979 American nebraska origin. 2003 Nebraska university graduation. The same year, private exhibition “Japanese” opening (the nebraska Lincoln city rotunda gallery). It immigrates to 2004 Chiba prefecture Matsudo city. ”

Sypal = Sai-pa-ru and “Sai” is how you say Rhino in Japanese.

Here is close to what that was based from:

Nebraska, the Good Life

These photographs were taken in Nebraska and South Dakota, between 2002 and 2004.
The year before this period I had studied in Japan and it was during this time when I began to use photography as means to investigate the world. Like many who have returned home from a stay abroad, I saw what I had always considered as my home in a more sensitive way. Operating in a similar way as when I was photographing in Japan, my camera was the tool through which I confronted and dealt with my surroundings.

I have never equated my view of the American Midwest with what Hollywood or popular American culture has long settled on as a vision of this area. To me the people and the land are far more interesting than the stereotypes which one usually finds in the media. That said though, this is not a conclusive visual survey of the state. It is simply my view of Nebraska.

These photographs are then formal attempts to visually understand where I am from. To me they are photographic reactions, questions, and probably documents.

ネブラスカ、ザ　グッド　ライフ

この作品は2002年から2004年までネブラスカ州、サウスダコタ州で撮った写真です。
この１年前に私は日本に留学をしていました。前々から写真をよく撮っていましたが、そのときに私は世界を観る方法として写真を撮り始めました。外国に暮らしていた多くの人々のように、日本から帰った私は、自分の故郷にあるものを再認識しました。カメラという道具を通して私は自分の身の回りのものに直面するようになりました。ハリウッドがアメリカを象徴しているように、アメリカ中西部をアメリカの象徴と考えることはありませんでした。メディアによくあるような「典型的なアメリカ」なものよりも、中西部の人々や土地の方が私にとっては興味深いのです。
そしてこれらの写真は私の育った場所を視覚的に理解する試みとして撮りました。私にとってこれらの写真はまさに写真的な反応であり、疑問であり、またおそらく記録だと考えています。