Diary Notes: Hajime Kimura
Hajime Kimura is a Japanese photographer born in 1982. He was raised in the Chiba prefecture just outside Tokyo.
Hajime Kimura is a Japanese photographer born in 1982. He was raised in the Chiba prefecture just outside Tokyo. Having studied architecture and anthropology at university, he began his career in 2006. In October 2019, the photo book “Snowflakes Dog Man” was published in the CEIBA edition and “Mišo Bukumirović” was published in Reminders Photography Stronghold as a hand-made edition in May 2020.
In recent, he has been working on a project with the theme of "human memory" in Serbia and Japan.
Snowflakes Dog Man – Hajime Kimura
An album takes me here, far, far away, I never know.
One snowy day I took a walk with a black dog which my father used to have.
I just followed him as he led. We came by a path vanishing into rice fields. As soon as I released his leash, he ran away into the snow, like a jet melting into the white canvas. I didn’t know the path he and my father had walked many times. Some memories with my family were fading away since my last relative, my father, passed away. I was not getting along with my family, so I stayed away from them. When I was back home, he was about to die. After a while, I found a family album on his shelf. With those pictures, I ended up realizing that some memories couldn’t come to me, even what happened a few years ago. Day by day I wanted to know more about them, especially about my father. So I decided to visit the places he had been to. Some of them were from the album, the others were from my memories. To recreate and fill in my blank space even though it was not the truth.
The jet didn’t come back.
I followed his steps again, slowly, just slowly.
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