Hiroshi Aoki

青木弘

The photographs are the finest communication. However, I think recently. "It is not enough a little bit." The one way does not consist with the communication. Through a print, new trust is born while we talk freely together. And smile and hope. Dialogue begins without conflict of the religion such as Christian and Muslim. This is the essence of the photograph, and of the truth "the photograph means communication". I show the photographs which I photographed before here. It is happiness if I have you notice their beauty. I stop labors and hands them some prints. I hand them some prints. they are all muddy from head to foot. Even if a print becomes dirty, I do not mind it. At first, I was so nervous. However, the uneasy disappeared immediately. Smiles overflowed from the face of workers to see the prints. I thought that the communication was not wrong with photographs when I saw them. My photographs returned to the original figure which there should be. All prints became dirty with mud immediately and worn out. In such photographs, there is one piece that is the muddiest, and became tattered. In other words, it is the photograph which they like it most and were interested in of the subject. I believe that this becomes the new message again and reaches Japan and the world. And I hope that deep communication is exchanged through this photograph.