Kids' Existence by Takuma Imamura (September 25, 2009) 
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All seven photographers presented this week have been selected from the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts' annual Young Portfolio Acquisitions program. The program aims at encouraging young persons enthusiastic about expressing themselves through the art of photography. The Young Portfolio Acquisitions event is not a contest. All photographers, professional or amateur and regardless of nationality, are invited to submit their published or unpublished works to be considered for induction into the Museum's permanent collection. The single condition is that applicants must not be older than thirty five years. The program started in 1995. Applicants can re-submit in subsequent years, this allows the museum to see how artists develop their vision. The museum calls for submission in April. Today's presentation: Kids' Existence by Takuma Imamura.
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I visit these homes and photograph these children in their rooms. These are normal Japanese children, growing up in normal families. The aggregate of being common expresses Japanese society.
I noticed that I understood the state of the whole house by looking at the room of the child. Many children have their own space and use it to play and study in. Many children have a lot of video games and toys.
They can obtain most of the things they want. Few of them read books, many homes don't have a bookshelf.
Few of them own their own mobile telephones, but the number is increasing.
Many children go to a jyuku (a place to study for school entrance examinations, ed.). Iam interested in these children's daily lifes. Because these children are the Japanese futures.
I want to express society through photographs of children. I think our social conditions can be described by photographing children.
Some people say that childishness has disappeared in Japan. If that is true then that is wrong. Because the children would change into nothing. Social conditions have changed, but a child is still a child.
Children have the brightness and the possibilities, they have the future, that does not change. And we should ask ourselves what kind of society we are leaving behind for the children who are the next generation?
Takuma Imamura (1980) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
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