#hajime sawatari
![Tomoko Matsushima, 1976. Photo by Hajime Sawatari. Hajime [Sawatari] is the kind of person who is ge](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me3bke7xr11qb09lpo1_640.png "Tomoko Matsushima, 1976. Photo by Hajime Sawatari. Hajime [Sawatari] is the kind of person who is ge")
Tomoko Matsushima, 1976. Photo by Hajime Sawatari.
Hajime [Sawatari] is the kind of person who is genius when you let him do what he likes. This may sound somewhat impertinent, but I don’t think there are any true genius photographers. Photographers always have to borrow something to shoot, don’t they, whether it is a person or a landscape? I think a true genius is someone who creates something from scratch, which is why I think that true genius among photographers is impossible. Having said that though, I still think there are actually two genius photographers, and Hajime is one of them. I won’t mention the name of the other.
– Yutaka Takanashi, “Yutaka Takanashi X Hajime Sawatari X Naoki Nishi”
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From left to right: Hajime Sawatari, Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe, and Tenmei Kanoh. January, 2012.
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