Taishi Hirokawa, Photographer

I first found Taishi Hirokawa's name when I was looking in Sophie Calle's Take Care of Yourself book for who had done the photography of the contributors. I think the portraits of the contributors are beautiful and was also was glad to see that she had given up authorship of these portraits to another photographer. Taishi Hirokawa was used by Calle to photograph the Bunkuru sequence. It makes me feel more confident when I give up authorship of the photography in my work.

I was interested to look at his own projects:

TIME AND TIDE

VEGITATION

SONOMAMA SONOMAMA

High Fashion in the Japanese Countryside, 1987

Taishi Hirokawa travels around rural Japan in a wagon loaded with designer outfits of namely, Issay Miyake, Comme de Garcon, Yohji Yamamoto and others. He meets people who live with nature, bearing sun and the earth, such as a farmer ploughing his feild, a fisherman, a man working in a gas station, a builder at work, a country watch-maker, a general grocer, an icecream man, and an amateur archeologist doing research on his own. He asks them to dress into the designer outfits on the spot and captures them on film