人々を惹きつけてやまない街、ニューヨーク
そのパワーは街の建物でも、観光スポットでもない。住んでいるニューヨーカー、移民、そして観光客が作り上げる雰囲気、エネルギーが更に人を惹きつけるのではないか。
2001-9/11アメリカ同時多発テロ事件から私にはニューヨークがB＆Wに見え始める。光を失ったかの様なその街に再びエネルギーが戻りつつある２年後2003年から変わったNY、変わらないNY、そしてここの街が持つ独特な気配を撮り始める。そして喪失感が付きまとっていたWTCのない摩天楼に人々の息づく気配、エネルギーが写し込まれていく。
（人の）気配、匂い、雰囲気、時間、「場」を撮る
風景を題材にしつつも、撮っているのは風景ではない。ありふれた風景の中にとけ込んで見る事の出来ない何かを繊細にすくい上げているかの様な白黒の世界。網膜の裏側に残る残像。。。時間、記憶、気配が写し込まれている様だ。
New York, a place that always leading non-stop interest to many people, the power of New York does not come from buildings or sightseeing spots, but it comes from the people live in New York, so called “NewYorkers”, the immigrants, and the tourists who created the whole New York atmosphere and energy.
After the series of terrorist attack on September 11th in 2001, I, a photographer Junichi Takahashi has started seeing New York in Black-and-White. However, New York has gradually recovering its energy from its darkest days. Two years later, Takahashi has begun to photograph the unique indication of the “never-changed” side of New York and the “changed” side of New York. He also captured the energy that people finally arrived to the skyscrapers that shadowed with the sad loss of Word Trade Center.
He photographs people’s sign, smell, atmosphere, time, and place. Even if the scenery is the photograph topic, he might not be taking any scenery. It is like seeing a black-and-white world with scooped up delicate details that blended into an ordinary scene, an image that left behind the back of the retina…. It seems to have captured time, memory and indication.