“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm to feel it is the “raison d’être”. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a “raison d’etre” which lives on in itself.”
~ André Kertész
(1894-1985)
It’s a rainy day in Tokyo. Andre is there for a museum opening. Gazing from his hotel room, he observed an ordinary line of Japanese office workers with seemingly identical black umbrellas, all oblivious to the relationship between them and the traffic arrow—a relationship that accident and choice had called into being.
Andre, with his keen eye for shapes and his insight to recognize when something special presents itself, seized the moment.
Japan has its own unique culture and pace, which I was fortunate to experience for the first time last year. I can’t wait to return.
