handwritten photographs
From the Summer, 1995 issue of Deja-Vu, a Japanese Photography Quarterly:
deja-vu: “The Japanese writing system cannot be separated from reality, as the shapes or the pictures of the characters are based on real things. And when a character is handwritten it is that much more related to its base in the real.”
Araki: “Handwriting is raw, and that’s why I like it. And I like photographs that are still tied to reality. I don’t want them to lose their humidity, so I stop and shoot before the become refined or sophisticated. ‘Incomplete’ photographs are more attractive, they possess the past and the future– they move. ‘Complete’ photos make me feel like I am alone in a coffin.”
