HARUKI

And so we went. Out, into the city. We walked the streets. He knew them and I did not. We went looking for light in the city, sky light, sunlight falling from high above us. In its light we stopped, took a pictures and then continued to walk. Towards the next stop we did not know where it was.

People walked fast, with eyes set on their goals. They rushed. They appeared and disappeared. They became a flicker, a blurry surface, a facade of faces and feet, legs like drumsticks hammering the streets. They became an unpuncturable wall, and so we turn each other into strangers.

To move slowly made us see more, it let us appreciate the details of the city, to find those small and beautiful spots, to let those moments expand into a world of their own and to immortalize them by a shutter opening and closing.

GIRLS

Not really a plan, but a thought of change. Waiting for the change to come, wanting it, wondering when it will be. Letting things be. Letting time pass. And in time become. Slowly turn into someone else, slowly see the reality and the self change, before our eyes. Slowly. Rush slowly. Shortcuts only delay.

Never had I gone through an agency’s composite cards of girls and boys. I wondered how I possibly would be able to tell who it was behind the pictures, behind the retouching and airbrushing. Did the person in the picture come through at all? Who was it that I saw? How would I be able to choose when I did not know? But wouldn’t anyone be wonderful to portray all the same? Because each and every individual holds beauty and truth in their own way, that both shine through their eyes.

These are the pictures that the day gave.

Credits:

HARUKI

Photography by Lovisa Ingman

Location: Kyoto, JAPAN

Thanks to Haruki at Wildflower Agency, Osaka.

GIRLS

Location: Kyoto, JAPAN

Thanks to make up artist Yuasa at Coup de vent, the studio Beautiful Works (http://design.beautiful-works.jp/) in Kyoto, and to Marie and Luy at Wildflower Agency, Osaka.