In The Darkness by Jiro Fukasawa (May 25, 2010) 
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Shintaro Sato recommended Jiro Fukasawa to us. Jiro sent us two series, the first comprises near-abstract images of US fighter jets in the sky. The second is this wonderful series of Firefly images. I have chosen to feature this series, because it made me smile immediately. The work makes me think about warmth and innocence even though there is death at the end of this spectacle for half the flies involved. What a wonderful sight it must be to witness this natural phenomenon, that has been captured so beautifully in these photographs. By the way, Fukasawa’s fighter jet series is a strong body of work as well, check it out at his personal website.
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Since early times, we have a custom to enjoy watching flying firefly in darkness from June to July in Japan.
The emission of light is a breeding act which is also a sign of the courtship.
All the people watching the light of the love are smiling.
There will be a light of warm love in their hearts.
I capture the dance of the light with my camera and bring this home.
Then it reappears on paper in the darkroom.
Taken from the website of Photo Gallery International: Fukasawa began photographing fireflies in 2004. Fireflies were composed as a subject in Japanese traditional Waka poems from ancient times, also they are often appear in the song lyrics and idioms even now.
Fireflies spend much of their lifetime (around one year) in water and soil. At a larval stage, they receive nutrition for approximately eleven months and two weeks. They don’t eat for the subsequent one to two weeks, while – in the adult stage – they reproduce. Female fireflies will die after they have mated and laid their eggs.
Fukasawa photographs a beautiful but harsh process of species survival, and recreates love light drawings on photographic paper in the darkroom.
The light trajectory of the fireflies dance looks like a far away galaxy filled with unidentified flying objects.
Jiro Fukasawa (1968) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
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