Nov. 5 1993
Up at 8; work. I have to work around stations because of my job*; short breaks, so I can’t go far. And then I shoot fast- 20 rolls an hour. A small aperture, the distance set to infinity; I don’t have time to focus. And then there’s always some amateur photographer around: “Nice camera, is it a 6x7 Makina?” They always want to chat while I’m working. Annoying. To Fuchu at 5 to pick up Erika. Then to the library; borrow Nishii Kazuo’s Lessons in Darkness. Overflowing darkness. Of course it’s just as bad to have too much brightness.
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Except from (now defunct) photography quarterlydeja-vu n.15 Tokyo Diaries / valerian
*Kanemura at this time worked as a newspaper and magazine deliveryman to kiosks in train stations. He would ride his scooter around town with his Makina 67 to make deliveries. The work from this period was compiled into his photobook Spider’s Strategy