Trouble In Mind by Masafumi Sanai (March 26, 2010) 
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Introduction by Marc Feustel
With Sanai’s work, there is often no discernible subject: his images often appear to be of nothing or, at least, of the spaces in between things. His strength is in editing, combining seemingly unrelated images to form a strong atmosphere. The orange hue and emptiness of his series Trouble in Mind creates the feeling of a world from which we have suddenly disappeared.
Marc Feustel is an independent curator, writer and blogger based in Paris. A specialist in Japanese photography, he is the author of Japan: a self-portrait, photographs 1945-1964 (Flammarion, 2004) and the creative director of Studio Equis (www.studioequis.net), an organisation devoted to broadening access to the visual arts between different cultures, with a focus on the relationship between Asia and the West. He blogs at Weblink: eyecurious.com
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Trouble in Mind is a collection of photographs Masafumi Sanai took in his twenties before he published his first book ‘Ikiteiru (being alive)’ in 1997.
The photographs were originally taken in black and white film and printed on color paper, all tones have turned into yellow and orange hues.
The photographs show street scenes with sharp and crisp details.
Partly because of the effect of unusual color, the photographs somehow appear like hallucinations and are a clear evidence of Sanai’s intense gaze that has characterized his works ever since.
Masafumi Sanai (1968) lives and works in .
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