Photographer Yoshie Tominaga, a photographer who has been taking portraits and fashion photos of many famous artists and has been active on the front line for over 20 years.Currently, her mother, her mother, is an interview with her career as her photographer, her life as a woman.A lot of gold words that push our backs lightly.Find a hint to live a rich life.
Please tell me the opportunity to become a photographer.
At the age of 21-2, I was a part -time worker backpacker at that time, but I saw that my friends around me graduated from college and started getting a job (laughs).hand.When I saw others began to become a member of society, what about me?When I thought, I didn't think of it except for the photographer.Looking back, the camera was part of my life, and it was always fun when I was taking pictures.When I thought so, I thought I had only a photographer if I made my profession, and left the house the following year, saying to my mother that I would train.
It means that the camera was part of your life, but when did you start taking pictures?
I have been a camera since I was in elementary school.It was a so -called shooting iron!I made a snack and rode a bicycle, and there was an Olympus pen or a single -lens reflex camera at home, so I went to shoot with it.When I was a junior high school student, I liked "Japan" and "YMO", so I chased and took pictures with fans.When I was a high school student, he loved cameras and had a stretcher at home.After school, I was printing at his house.Take pictures together, take a picture of the student band they are assembling.It's a bit embarrassing to put it into words like this (laughs).At that time, there were not so many restrictions, so I went to a live house and shot musicians, and that was "Boadams".
What kind of step did you approach your dream after you decide to become a photographer?
Since I was 24, I was writing a timetable to fulfill my dreams.How many years old, how old you buy a used car ... all you often dream (laughs).Even after thinking of becoming a photographer, I first wrote my dreams and decided the time.He has been loading for four years, two years as a studio, and has become free and hired an assistant, and has gained experience one by one as he wrote.
After being free, I started taking a picture and started every day to go to business. I guess about 100 sales went. Fashion magazines that you know, such as "Cutie", "Fine Boys", and "Seda", are random! But there was no fashion photo while taking the work. In the editorial department of a fashion magazine, I was showing photos taken on a trip. I was told, "What did you come to!" When you are in business for "Hi Fashion", let's take a model! When. I asked the model office to show a photo of the trip and take a model. After that, I went to business with two works, a trip photo and a fashion photo. Designer Takahashi liked the journey of the journey than the model photos, about the job of "Undercover", which started dating in 2002. I shot the DM of the first show in Paris.
独立してから20年以上、最前線で活躍し続けている富永さん。数えきれないほどの撮影現場を経験されていますが、女性写真家としての苦労はありましたか。女性として、仕事の中で大切にしていたことはありますか。
Women may have a feeling of "anger / resentment" in places that are not related to reason and in places where their control is not effective due to hormonal balance.I was worried about the emotions that came down suddenly, but I thought I had to use that feeling well on the site.In fact, when you use anger and resentment on -site, people move.At that time, Katsuhide Morimoto, who was an assistant and is now active as a photographer, became my limbs, and when they moved, the work became good.
I think women like us should use resentment as a creation.Many women may not know their identity and are very anxious or think that they are negative.However, there is a moment when society moves by using it, and there is a moment when life progresses.So I want you to move forward without being afraid.
Tominaga's shooting site has a warmth that both the newcomers and the great horses are equally wrapped like a family.Do you have anything to value in creating the atmosphere of the site?
Our job is like a director."Let's have a good time in this box today! Let's make a wonderful work!"To do so, you have to have tea, you have to have delicious food, and the photographer makes a framework in a setup other than photos and pushes everyone.That way, both the artists and the staff will be able to shoot comfortably.The mood of the site is directly linked to the expression in the photo.
パティ・スミスや坂本龍一、BLANKEY JET CITYなど、多くのアーティストを撮影し、信頼されている富永さん。一流のアーティストたちに信頼される理由は、ご自身で何だと思いますか。
If you have one, are you interested in the other person and think about what kind of feelings you feel right now?Of course, check before shooting what you are doing and what you are doing now.It's like an implicit rule, like homework, and if you feel that I have done homework, it will make the air saying, "Okay, go!"It's something you can see when you press the first shutter.It feels like you are leaving emotions with each other.
アメリカの詩人でありミュージシャンのパティ・スミスのオフィシャルフォトグラファーとしても知られる富永さん。2001年～2016年までの15年間の彼女の姿を一冊にまとめた『パティ・スミス_光の扉／Patti Smith_the doors of light』も好評発売中。最初の出会いのきっかけは？
At first only two cuts.It was Fuji Rock Festival with no permission from Patty Smith himself.At that time, I brought the camera that I brought today.I'm small and I want to bring a big camera.It's rude if you shoot with a small camera with a small camera, right?First of all, I wanted to see my sincerity.I guess Patty is such a big camera.Then, for the time being, I sat down and let me shoot.In time, it was just about 3-5 minutes.
When do you feel the joy and suffering as a photographer?
The joy is that someone likes the photos taken.This is the feeling that I have been independent since I became independent.I was painful when I was 35 years old.She was in a slump.I felt that I could work a lot and buy what I liked, but I felt that there was nothing left except work."I'm too bad, I worked too much. I don't have the next goal!"I thought that the work of the camera alone would be crushed.Somewhere in my heart, I wanted to have a family, and I wanted to raise my child, so it was a time when I was sprouting.
It was marriage that was solved.I wasn't worried that I had a child because I thought I had done it once.Perhaps I was still able to do my best, I was able to go up, but at that time I was tired of my mind and body, so I felt that the burden was reduced by marriage, or I felt that all the situation was improving.did.
Did you become a mother and have a change in how to deal with work?
Since my child was born, I saved my work with my family priority. I wanted to shoot, but in fact it was difficult to balance with my home ... My husband is a salaried worker, so when I come back, I want to make rice and wait. I forgot to make a child twice, went to work, and had a fight. At that time, it is not good to move forward with your feelings until you break your heart. Work and home cannot proceed at the same speed, so reduce either one and proceed with the other. In that way, we have balanced. Now my daughter is getting bigger, so when my return is a little late, I can make curry (laughs). I'm thinking that I will gradually change the balance between work and home so that my home does not collapse. If everyone is peaceful with a little patience, isn't that okay?
Where do you get inspired or personal images?
I watched the movie well.Jim Jarmush's Deadman and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.It is often inspired by the beauty of the video rather than the content of the story.Also from Haruki Murakami's book!Fantasy world tips can be obtained from books.
"Undercover" recorded a show for five years since 2002 and released collaboration items ...For Tominaga, the brand "Under cover" related to it.This time, I specially shot at the designer Sho Takahashi's office.What is the charm of "undercover" that Fashion Photographer Tominaga thinks?
Jonio (Shield Takahashi) is the same age, and there are many things in common with the music you have heard and the culture you have passed.He has a good sense and music, but he has more power to move forward.I think the energy power that is transmitted to the world is the most attractive "undercover".
I also love Jonio's compassionate personality.Therefore, the first prerequisite is to give back.I can live now because everyone has been supported by everyone since independence.Thanks to the break of the "undercover", I also saw a wonderful scenery.Not only "undercover", but the Japan brand that has built the times always has a respect.
Currently, after working at Tominaga's assistant, many independent photographers are active at the forefront.What are you thinking about raising photographers who will be responsible for the next generation?
Regarding raising assistants, there are times when they have to eat them because they keep their children.First of all, I tried to eat dinner properly.The rest is a matter of course.No matter what kind of job, no matter how amazing I met, I was getting money in the photos, so I always said that I wouldn't be a tengu so that I didn't get on the track.There is a guideline of three years from assistant to graduation, but those who can do it will leave faster, and some people take a little longer.Do it together until you can eat it yourself.If you go outside, you will be full of clients, so I will be able to become independent as a photographer or as a person.
What kind of influence does Tominaga interact with the younger generation photographers?
I want to get more and more irritation from the younger generation.Today, Mr. Hori, who took the portrait, was also inspired, and I think that such fresh talents will not come out in the world.I get new stimuli from them, and they can make new things again, thinking that there was such a thing after seeing my old work.I want to circulate energy, not one -way.
最後にVOGUE GIRL読者に向けて、メッセージをお願いします。
The world is now changing the world rapidly and having to adapt to a new life.I need a lot of energy, but I have to go forward.What you want to remember at that time is the feeling of caring for people.
If I can afford a little money, I donate such as "children's nursing homes" and "disaster donations".Being kind to people can save your feelings.Thinking about the person on the other side of the earth and values water.There are children who want to drink water or not drink, and some children do not want to study.I want you to imagine people who live hard in such an environment.I live and survive every day, now that's the only thing, but I'm still moving forward.I want you to spend every day without giving up.
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