Tatsuya Taguchi

Tatsuya Taguchi, 2012 (extract):

Most of the subjects for her photographic works are ordinary objects and scenes can be seen in our daily lives. Passages, hedgerows, parks, gardens, windows of automobiles, trains and houses appear again and agian. We find quiet and deserted sceneries and reflections on ponds and windows and the surface of puddles, changing every moment according to weather and light. She usually does not make thorough preparation or consideration about those shooting point, time or season before taking photographs. She rather encounters those pictures by chance as snapshots.

 

Her concern is different from those of many other contemporary photographers, who try to document exotic lives, unfamiliar sceneries or sensational events, or who represent images of something related to a certain event intending to make viewers recall narrative stories, or who collect images of certain subject in order to classify them. Although she uses a digital camera in the past 6 years, her way of talking and developing pictures is quite orthodox. It is not her way to insist on her own originality by adopting any special technique to photograph.

 

As we can understand from the fact that she also creates collage works, photography for her is like painting for a painter, just a medium to indicate her vision that she is searching in the real world. She is always prepared for the moment when a corresponding reality to her vision turns up, carefully looking around her everyday life. At certain time and at certain places, in the qualities of materials, in those constructions and compositions, in colors and light, and in those combinations, they appear and she captures them.