Tokyo Toilets, germs or what else?
Well, the truth is that shooting inside a Toilet helps to better understand who I am, Woman, Partner, Mother…
The Camera is like a protective shield and at the same time a magnifying glass pointed on strangers.
When I walk in the streets, I observe people and I take pictures of them, I have the privilege to see them and that portrait I take becomes my gift.
It has been a bit of time since the distance between me and the person I photograph has become unbearable, I really need to get close to be an active subject in this process. I need to question what I see and who I am, I need the person I photograph to be fully aware of what is happening and I need to be part of that photograph.
The Toilet is a small, intimate, equal, raw, naked environment.
It is the perfect environment for this process of comparison, sharing, reception, acceptance and observation.
It is the perfect environment for what I want to photograph right now and to enter, first of all, into the process of my photography in a new guise, which does not exclude what it has been, but which enriches it with a process of self-critical growth.
Chiara Ferrante
東京的廁所……細菌……或是其他什麼東西呢？
好吧，好吧！事實是在廁所內的拍攝讓我更好地了解我是誰，是女人、伴侶還是母親…
相機就像是保護罩，同時又是一個放大鏡，對著陌生人。
當我在街上行走時，我會觀察人們並為他們照相，我非常有幸能見到他們，我拍的肖像成為他們送我的禮物。
自從我和我拍攝的人之間的距離變得不舒服以來，已經過了一段時間，在這過程中，我真的需要接近能讓人感到充滿活力的對象。 我需要質疑自己所看到的畫面，和自己是誰？我需要讓我拍攝的人充分了解正在發生的事情，並成為該照片的一部分。
廁所是一個小巧、私密、平等、原始、裸露的環境。
這是進行比較、共享、接收、接受和觀察的過程的理想環境。
這是我現在要拍攝且以一種新方式進入我的攝影過程的理想環境，這種新的掩飾不排除它所經歷的一切，而是通過這個檢視自己的過程來變得更茁壯。
Chiara Ferrante
Translation by Manon SU
