Mother Lake in White 2008-2009

Lake Biwa is the biggest lake in Japan and one of the oldest lakes in the world, located about 20 km east of Kyoto, the Japanese old capital. The lake has been deeply related to our daily lives for a longtime. It is a reservoir for more than fourteen million people and we are very conscious of keeping it clean even though industries always threaten its natural gifts like fish, reeds and trees. I myself, born in Kyoto, have been growing up with water of Lake Biwa. When we think that two-thirds of the human body are made of liquid, it is true that my body is made by Lake Biwa, really MOTHER LAKE for me.　My deep respect and thanks to Lake Biwa penetrate in the pictures. Even more, I would like to express the purity and mysteriousness of Lake Biwa with white images using infrared films in this series.