TRENDS in Studio PHOTOGRAPHY: Tetsuro TAKAI (Japan)

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TETSURO TAKAI 1951 - Gifu City, Japan Award winning, Japanese photographer, Tetsuro Takai, is a photographer who has developed his own style for making separations in colour and has kept a genuine Japanese atmosphere in his way of visualising in photography. In 1989 Tetsuro co-founded ZERO a circle of about 20 photographers, graphic designers and publishers who produced group shows and books together. They were all drawn together by an equal desire to contact ‘a variety of questions and anxieties, delights and dreams’ through photography.

“What is significant to me is not something I see but something that lies in between”, he explains.
Sometimes he focuses on abstract themes, and some mere patterns or a haze of colour. He is a commercial photographer specialising in advertisements for jewellery and cosmetics, with assignments for most of the big beauty companies including Estee Lauder and Clarins. They lend themselves perfectly to his style of close-ups, detail, and subdued elegance relying on a lot of play with light and colour.

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"Mystique sparkles together with light.
Mysterious figures blend with the darkness. We are poised halfway between these two mysteries. At once alight, then set into darkness.
Here, we hold to the eternal dream of glory.
The existence of objects,
is only ‘existence’ when I sense
a certain relationship between the objects themselves,
or between them and myself."

And this ‘something in between’ is precisely that which I initially consider as the theme of my images. Handling light, shifting objects, always watching and in the light, darkness and air I try to establish something new In my viewfinder, unfamiliar worlds suddenly appear. And they are sometimes fixed on my film forever. Perhaps, the reason I still want to take photographs is that I relish the pleasure of confirming something hazy which always tickles at my heart through photography.

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