Afterwords from the photobook by Hitomi:
見知らぬ人、多様な人々が東京の街を行き交う。
誰もが固有の背景と物語を持ち、限りある時間を生きている。
人々は、私・あなたを映し出す鏡、世を伝える窓であり、
私たちの日常は一見平凡のようで、奇跡の連なりに満ちている。
私はその煌めく光の波に導かれるままシャッターを切り、写真に残す。
「こんにちは、ありがとう、さようなら、またいつか...」
この本の中の全ての方々に深く感謝申し上げると共に、
“We are”が、未来の私たちに届くことを願って。
A multiple of people — strangers — cross paths throughout the towns of Tokyo. Each creates his or her own story, with his or her own background, in the limited time they have in this world. Other people are really mirrors of you and me, a window into the state of human society. Our daily life may seem to be ordinary, but isn’t it a sequence of miracles? I shoot guided by the sparkling 'lightwaves' all around, and what I have seen is recorded in my photographs. While shooting, a quiet voice in my heart says to the people I photograph, “hello, thank you, and farewell… until perhaps we meet again”. I am deeply grateful to all people who appear in this book, which I hope bridges the present to the people “we are” in the future.
Photobook
We are: Tokyo 2015-2018
Snapshots of “Our daily life” in towns in Tokyo.
“Hitomi Yoshida's camera cuts through the
bottomless labyrinth that we call the city,
exposing to the light the nature of countless
desires lurking in the ordinary”.
- Daido Moriyama