PARIS drawn by Pinhole Camera organized by Sankei Living Shinbun-sha

     I met pinole photography in 1990. When I first saw pinhole pictures I felt they were somewhat different from the pictures I had seen : the contour is darker than the center, the subject in motion is blurry and the image is a bit out of focus.

     While I wanted to take myself pinhole pictures being attracted by such pictures I happened to find a workshop and then could start living with pinhole photography.

     The interest in pinhole photography is getting higher for these years in Japan. It seems to me that more and more people find some meaning in taking pinhole pictures, a time and pains taking means, despite in the days of convenient goods which surround us. That is to say, we rediscover the fundamental principle that the photography is a light drawing picture or we are attracted by the charm of original images beyond our imagination which are different from our "instant" pictures taken everyday by a lens camera.

     The pictures shown here were taken in Paris from 1993 to this spring. They ar landscapes of Paris which are "banal" and too familiar to us through different media, but I will be happy if you rediscover the charm and the particularity of pinhole photography called the origin of photography in contrast with the pictures taken by a lens.

                                                                                         Mieko TADOKORO

PARIS drawn by Pinhole Camera organized by Sankei Living Shinbun-sha
April 30 to May 6, 1997 August 15 to August 20, 1997
Izutsuya, Kitakyushu Kokura Tokyu Department Store, Kichijoji, Tokyo