The Ferris wheel seen from the Wine Castle in Ikeda Town. A photographer begins fervently snapping photos. This is the scenery you would have seen if you could see the first time photographer Tsubasa Fujikura laid eyes on the Ferris wheel. It was here he took a photo that won an award in the Art of Still Life section in Japanese Esquire magazine and changed his focus from black and white to color photography.
His father was a photographer, so it was natural for Fujikura to harbor an interest for photography. When he was in elementary school, his friends used to love having their pictures taken outside school.
Fujikura thinks of photographs as a medium that “slices through complicated human emotions”. He loves taking portraits because of this very belief. “I don’t use the word “portrait” just for people. I think this photograph of a Ferris wheel is also a portrait. I want to continue taking portraits that may not fit the conventional meaning of the word,” he says.
His favorite camera is an 8 x 10 large format.
“It’s a simple camera. I want to photograph things that aren’t decorated, and people that I can open my heart to.”
He also drives 70’s Celica, but his unique personality doesn’t end there. He also roasts his own coffee.
Using his overflowing energy and unique eye, we hope to see a continued evolution in his creation of a “Tsubasa World”.
