A single glass wind chime hangs beneath the eaves of Kunitama Shrine in Nakoso, Iwaki, Fukushima. The paper strip below it reads natsumode - the summer shrine visit - and it is caught mid-sway, bent by a movement of air that lasted a second. Behind it, a woven bamboo blind; in front, moss-wrapped kokedama spheres falling out of focus.
Photographed on a Leica M6 TTL with Ilford HP5+, wide open, working close so the eye settles on one… bell and lets the rest become suggestion. A blurred arm passes through the background - someone walking the shrine path, left in deliberately.
A wind chime exists to be heard. Photographed, it gives you everything but the sound. Hand-developed in my darkroom on Ilford archival fiber paper, signed, open edition.
Kevin Moore, primarily self-taught, presents a life absorbed in film photography since the late '70s. Building from a foundation of drawing and painting, his street photography intertwines classical art training with elements of Japan's daily life, reflecting unrelentingly on his environment. His captured moments, vacant yet filled with resilience and character, concoct ordinary narratives with a quiet, poignant resonance of familiarity and reflection.
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Glass Prayers
Kevin Moore
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