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Photographer Hal

Photographer Hal is an established Japanese photographer born (1971) and based in Tokyo, whose pseudonym originates from the computer in the film ‘A Space Odyssey’.

During his university years he starved for encounters with different people from other cultures around the world. He soon left Japan to travel throughout the Middle East and India. It was there he first became aware of his passion for photography. The camera became the key to overcoming shyness and limited local language skills and he could in some way communicate with the people he met. After graduating he joined an advertising production company in Tokyo and this enabled him to acquire a much wider set of photographic skills. The assignments were varied and unique including celebrities and established fashion icons. It was the crucible of his technical ability and the focus in his work soon became people.

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Couples, love and challenge are strong themes throughout Photographer Hal’s work with other key elements being individuality, style, communication and intimacy. Photographer Hal brings complete strangers to his confined spaces only to convey his continuing theme of ‘love of the couple’. “I am currently seeking new dimensions in portrait photography by challenging the majestic theme of mankind, defined through love” Photographer Hal states.

Since 2011 Photographer Hal has captured many varied and fresh couples in a vacuum sealed package to express ‘the power of love’ and the primal desire of love couples to become one. By vacuum-packing the couples they are adhered to one another and are unable to breathe for several seconds. In his series ‘Flesh Love Returns’, another dimension has been added by photographing the vacuum-packed couples in an environment that has a special meaning to them.

The subjects of this image, Kenta and Aki, met during the cherry blossom season. Cherry blossoms are the most memorable for both of them. The blooming period is very short, but we were lucky enough to photograph them at the peak of their bloom. The location was near the Imperial Palace,

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