鷲尾倫夫

ソウルの駅から地下鉄で20分程走った駅前の路地を入ると、横一列に１キロは続く政府公認の売春街がある。徴兵制を引いている理由と聞いた。

人形のように着飾った彼女たちは行儀よく片膝立て、男たちに選ばれるのを待つ、その顔、顔は言葉では表現できない愛おしさを感じると同時に、カメラを持つ私自身の後ろめたさに、心の動揺はあった。が、引き下がることはできなかった。

あくまでも私の感情に素直に従って、その人たちの前に立ち、カメラを向ける。その距離でしか見えない瞬間、その場所でしかものを感じることが出来ない瞬間の集積が、ここに差し出す写真である。

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When you walk into an alley near from a station which is just a 20 minute ride in a subway from Seoul, you will find yourself by houses with prostitutes. The alley extends nearly a kilometer. The place is officially recognized by the government They say it derives from military draft system of country.

Dressed up like dolls, girls there wait for guys to pick them up. They sit politely in Korean way with their one knee drawn up.

It is difficult to express what I felt there in proper words. I felt tenderly that their faces were pretty on one hand. At the same time, I felt for pointing my camera rudely at them but did not give in to this hesitation. I stood frankly in front of them and point my camera straight at them.
I submit before your eyes the collections of the space-time continua there and them between those girls and me which were cut out through my camera.