2000年代初頭に中目黒のレストラン「Higashiyama-Tokyo」で出会った宗ちゃん。美術大学卒業後、フランスに武者修行に。パリの路上で歌い始めたのがきっかけで、音楽に目覚め、帰国後オリジナルアルバムを数枚リリース。ここ最近は写真の世界に惹かれ、自ら写真を手掛けるようになったそうです。今月末には活動の拠点を大分県に移します。人物の個性をさり気なく引き出して撮るのも、彼の魅力の一つ。バックの写真は今回私が一番気に入った、あのマーク・ロスコーを彷彿させる空を写した一点。
This is a photographer, Soichiro Honda at his first exhibition in Shinjuku gallery.
He lost his elder sister when she was in 30's, that experience has changed his whole life, I suppose. He started to write songs and became a singer-song writer .And recently, he started to take pictures. The first picture and the last picture of his exhibion were the pictures of candles dedicated to his late sister. The sky, the firecrackes, the landscape of his homeland, Ohita Prefecture, and his early childhood days with his family pictures, all reminded me of the Showa-Era. Very personal pictures, but that reminiscing feelings that I've felt from his pictures was warm and simple like Soichiro Honda himself.