Photographerhal
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BY PHOTOGRAPHERHAL
Our son, Seitaro was born in January 2022. Due to the COVID-19 quarantine, I could not be present at the birth and felt frustrated and helpless. My wife, Yoko's image changed as she conceived the baby and as time passed. A new life was born. Now I was a father, and childbirth was nothing but a mystery for me. A few days after the birth at the hospital, I could finally see my wife and my son through the glass window. Their appearance was divine. To give form to my feelings at that time, I wrapped the landscapes of Okinawa, (where my wife was born) and Tokyo (where I was born) with light images of the mother and the baby. For me, the set of images was one of the births of a new Virgin Mary who brings together the human being and all things in the universe. It was also the beginning of our family of three. < Ayarl means mother in the Okinawan language>
