Seen: 爪と水 Nails and Water
Who: 林 朋奈 Tomona Hayashi
Where: Place M, Shinjuku
When: November 5 - 11, 2018
Hayashi is one of my absolute favorite photographers- her latest exhibition at Place M combines work from her previous shows with some new pictures.
Her methods (A Konica Hexar, Kodak Tmax 400 film) and personality (fantastic) result in pictures that can be lined-up / paired-up in any way and still work perfectly together. Despite her common tools her pictures are completely hers. This is because she has interest and confidence in and acceptance of her particular vision of the world. The opposite and far more common approach to photography is to manufacture a vision based on what one thinks photos should be like- to be liked. That’s brutally boring. Hayashi is infinitely interesting.