Ishiuchi Miyako
[Photographer, b. 1947, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
I am not photographing the past, I am taking the present moment, the time of the now, when these remnants are here, together with me.
...honestly all I do is capture what’s in front of my eyes. It’s extremely straightforward.
The world only starts to become evident through personal histories. In “Hiroshima,” I don’t photograph the several hundreds of thousands of deaths, but an encounter with just one woman wearing a dress, with the dress arranged so that the woman, who is still missing today, can come home at any time.
There’s always something about [my photographs] that’s cold. Maybe that’s because I never really wanted to become a photographer.
