Saeko Hatakeda
Saeko Hatakeda graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1981, and joined Sanshin Press Photo Works, where she studied under founders Kazuhiko Mitsumoto and Chizuko Ueno and continues to work today.
Hatakeda also shoots for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun women's section and the Mitsubishi Paper Mills corporate magazine, and helped edit the latter's book, "Mastering Multi-Gradient Black & White Art Printing." She has also conducted Mainichi mass communications and Asahi Optical PR magazine workshops, contributed to photography magazines and Photographic Equipment Industry Association publications, and served as an instructor at NHK Gakuen, Minolta Photo School, the Toshiba photography department, Fuji Photo Film, the Shashin Kosha Artgraph Photo School, and various amateur photography groups.
On the wonder of photography
Photography is the only recording medium that is able to capture time in a single frame. Not only can it express the flow of light or water as a series of points that form a line, but by adjusting the recording time (changing the exposure) it allows reproduced colors to be freely changed. That is what it makes it so enjoyable, and such a source of continual surprise.
In many cases, I use various techniques to communicate the emotional impact of something just as I experienced it. But other times there are details that were not visible at the time of shooting, or areas of shadow or highlight that could not be seen with the naked eye, that can be discovered for the first time only in the final image. I think it is this uncertainty of not knowing whether a photo will turn out the way we hope, of not knowing how it will look, that makes photography so much fun.
A City of Constant Change
Reborn as a New Landmark
Roppongi Avenue
The Hard Rock Cafe
Otafuku Hill
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