What kind of decade was that which in Japan is called the “lost decade,” the 1990s Ken Kitano was deliriously forging his own personal path in photography.
It was 1989 when he started shooting the series, “Flow and Fusion”.
In Japan, it was the end of the bubble economy.
At first Kitano took photographs of the rush-hour crowds in city centers with a slow shutter speed and a tripod.
A photographer alternates between discoveries and despairs in the course of his endless “dialogue with photography.”
The existence of people is extremely difficult to grasp, amorphous and fragile.
Their contours are always fluid, but each figure holds its own equivalent position in photographs.
Through the photographs collective existence was solid and beautiful.
He knew we exist.
Indeed, the world is present.
That was the miracle of photography, that will last forever.
