「Seen and Seeing」

• Photographer
  Kazuo Orihara
• Technical Info
  ?/1600 Sec F7.1
• Photo Date
  2022-07-18

I was drawn to the quiet tension of a fleeting moment—how something as ordinary as a chrome door handle could contain a universe of seeing. Within its curved surface, I didn’t just find a reflection, but a subtle threshold between the observer and the observed. This image questions not what we see, but how we see. Through reflection, looking and being looked at occur simultaneously. I framed the handle tightly, allowing a quiet figure to emerge— inviting viewers into a moment where the gaze folds, and the boundary between seeing and being seen quietly blurs.

Kazuo Orihara is a photographer whose subject is the abstraction of the city and the serene geometry found in the modern environment. His creative practice focuses on transforming everyday urban elements into meditative visual forms based on spatial tension.