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Tim Walker’s Shoot for the Moon
The photo session with Tim Walker and Yoshito Ohno took place in Aoyama, Tokyo in 2016. Tim’s team had previously visited Yoshito Ohno’s studio, and having seen the costumes and props he had, as well as his dance, they decided to take the whole lot to the venue and create something in the space. They had in fact prepared a lot of new costumes as well, but in the end they used costumes that Yoshito Ohno had previously used in his works. The aim of the session was for it to feature in the November 2016 edition of the British Vogue magazine.
In January 2018, Yoshito received a letter from Tim describing Shoot for the Moon. It turned out that there was to be a large-scale exhibition at the Victoria Albert Museum in London in 2019. He spoke of wanting to use the photographs in a photo book that was to be published with the exhibition, and also asked for a few words to be included in the book along with them. Yoshito sent a short text:
Kazuo Ohno went to war only three days after I was born.
He came back home to live with us when I was already 10 years old.
Then I trained for the modern dance with him at the age of 12. That was how I started Butoh.
The portrait Tim Walker took of Yoshito Ohno looks just like the “self-portrait” that Yoshito himself wrote of. The lines he wrote can be heard coming out of the portrait. This photo session between Tim Walker and Yoshito Ohno was a beautiful momentary collaboration of a photographer gazing at a Butoh dancer, and a Butoh dancer gazing into himself.
Tim Walker
Born in England in 1970, Walker’s interest in photography began at the Condé Nast library in London where he worked on the Cecil Beaton archive. Upon graduating from the Exeter College of Asrt, he was awarded the third prize as The Independent Photographer of the Year. He subsequently moved to New York. At 25, he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has photographed for the British, Italian and American editions, as well as W Magazine and LOVE Magazine ever since. In 2010, Walker mounted the exhibition Story Teller at Somerset House, London. In 2013, he released The Granny Alphabet, a collaborative collection celebrating grandmothers. Walker received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society in 2012. The Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery include Walker’s photographs in their permanent collection.
本棚｜Shoot for the Moon
撮影・編集 飯名尚人
Special thanks Tim Walker Alex Pasley-Tyler 株式会社青幻舎 大野一雄舞踏研究所