In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection. — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes.… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience. — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you. — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts. — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image