Gendai Igarashi
Born in Matsudo, Chiba in 1994. Influenced by his parents, who run a newspaper delivery store, he started delivering newspapers as a child. Although he never voluntarily read newspapers, he learned the pleasure of reading from the pictures he saw on the front page of the newspaper during his daily deliveries, through the titles and news photos.
As I continued to take photographs, I came to believe that I was dependent on digital camera performance. Influenced by photographs that capture with the senses, like those of Ihei Kimura and Henri Cartier-Bresson, he began shooting with an analog camera in 2019.
His photographs have a somewhat topical element cultivated from the newspaper medium, as well as an intimate element of the Japanese delivery industry. He does not take any hidden or staged shots, but rather focuses on the distance and space between himself and the subject of his photographs.
イガラシ ゲンダイ
1994年、千葉松戸市生まれ。新聞配達店を営む親の影響で、幼少期から新聞配達をする。新聞を自らすすんで読むことは無かったが、毎日の配達中、自然と目に入る一面紙面の題目と報道写真から、画から読み解く楽しさを知った。
写真を撮り続けていくうちに、デジタルカメラ性能に依存していると思い込むようになる。木村伊兵衛やHenri Cartier-Bressonのように感覚で捉える写真に影響を受け、2019年からアナログカメラで撮り始める。
彼の写真は、新聞媒体から培ったどこか時事的要素があり、また日本の配達業としての親近的要素がある。隠し撮りや演出は一切せず、写真を撮る彼自身と被写体との距離、空間を、重視しシャッターを切っている。
Phot: From the Tohoku trip, Koriyama, Dec 2023