Many of the buildings in the bustling old city are decades old.There is an old noodle shop in the old town, which has been open for decades and is still popular with customers.
Akiyama sits in the old noodle shop. At 77, he is as old as the old noodle shop.Akiyama is a Japanese freelance photographer.He was one of the first photographers to come to China after China's reform and opening up.Some people love landscape, some people love the city, some people love lovely animals, but akiyama love, especially love to photograph the relationship between people and the city, but akiyama love is children, children's smile is the most beautiful thing in akiyama.People in the 1980s were generally poor, but their spirit did not wither.Because of the lack of material, children in that era are more likely to experience the taste of happiness, smiling face more pure and natural.
However, what era of children's smiling face is not pure and natural and innocent?Akiyama loves to smile at children, as he used to and is now.No matter what it is, the deliberate movement is always stiff, and akiyama's smiling face is a real moment.Akiyama doesn't care about the shooting itself, but more about playing with children.Some people ask akiyama, why children in front of akiyama smile like that, and how akiyama is a wonderful moment to shoot it?"I will play games with them," akiyama said with a smile. "playing games is more important than shooting."When playing with children, akiyama's state of mind is like a child's state of mind.
The clear heart lake of children is gradually projected into the eyes of akiyama.At that moment, "how lovely, I want to be like this!"Akiyama immediately felt that this was the perfect time to press the shutter, "click", the child's most natural expression was recorded.Shooting is a moment, but the wait before shooting is more meaningful.Akiyama used his own shooting style to interpret this sentence.Photographers love photography, but the photographer more love is the people and things being shot, his love into all things shot out of the picture is individualistic color.Akiyama is a photographer, but is not interested in photographic equipment, but love people."I never bought a camera. I inherited my camera from my father."Akiyama says.Besides not loving cameras, he doesn't even clean them.Cleaning up the camera was unnecessary and pointless for him.
The dust and fingerprints in front of the camera could just adjust the sunlight to make it softer.His love of people led akiyama to refuse to photograph people in distress.He tried documentary photography, going to India to photograph the hungry and poor.However, akiyama soon found himself unable to face the hungry people, with his conscience to film them is a violation of human nature.
There are many excellent photographers in the world, who take pictures of the people at the bottom of the society in different ways and win awards, such a use of the pain of others to achieve their own behavior is moving sad and resentment.Life has countless moments, for photographers, many moments are worth shooting, but whether people can really keep a love for one thing forever?
Life is also like shooting, shooting the moment that the picture is very great, but this moment is no big deal, so a sense of loss.Our life is also in continuous love, constantly lost.
