professional category
Komorebi (Single)
DESCRIPTION
'komorebi" in Japanese means the play of sunlight through leaves.
Lost at a giant park in Tokyo is when I saw this lady. deep in the park, protected by the leaves, I felt inside of a dream. and there I took a shot (only one) of the lady.
AUTHOR
At the age of 19, Michael Sela, Equipped with a Pentax film camera his father gave him, he embarks on a journey for the sole purpose of photography. traveling over a year in over 10 countries, This journey also takes place in Japan (2019), which becomes his home.
Sela's photographs express sentimental and magical emotions at the same time. His photographs are a means of connecting with a different, distant Japanese reality, but which are also very intimate. He knows most of the people he photographs, and for him photography is capturing small moments in their midst. The people closest to him are photographed in a given space, "To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
In Sela's words, he turns emotion/time into something tangible that he can see and experience over and over again at will. Sela photographs the touch of light on skin, paying attention to the elements of geometry, allusion, romance, fragility, aesthetics, humanity, and more. In contrast,
In 2024, Sela's first Museum solo exhibition took place. ("Tikotin Museum of Japanese arts")
Sela's photographs express sentimental and magical emotions at the same time. His photographs are a means of connecting with a different, distant Japanese reality, but which are also very intimate. He knows most of the people he photographs, and for him photography is capturing small moments in their midst. The people closest to him are photographed in a given space, "To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
In Sela's words, he turns emotion/time into something tangible that he can see and experience over and over again at will. Sela photographs the touch of light on skin, paying attention to the elements of geometry, allusion, romance, fragility, aesthetics, humanity, and more. In contrast,
In 2024, Sela's first Museum solo exhibition took place. ("Tikotin Museum of Japanese arts")
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