Niépce’s Window

• Photographer
  Atsuko Suzukawa
• Technical Info
  Olympus Om-d E-m5 Mark?, Lensless
• Photo Date
  2022

In creating this work, I looked for a way to directly enable a dialogue with light. Therefore, I removed the camera lens and used my hand as a cylinder instead of it. I supposed the hand lens could play a role in converging light and making an image due to the principle of a pinhole. The pictures I took reminded me of "camera obscura.”The first successful image taken through a window on the second floor at my home through the method with repeated tests resembles the photograph "View from the Window at Le Gras" taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce for the first time in the world at his home.

Born in Tokyo. Currently resides in Nagoya, Japan. Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, Jissen Women's University. She is a photographer and a counselor at a hospital. She takes photographs on the theme of dialogue, empathy, especially nonverbal communication. She has participated in exhibitions in Japan and abroad.