Statement - Nobuhiro Fukui

"I'm regarding my photographic work as some sort of virus.
For example, try and imagine a blind man who regains the
sight of his eyes. Light hits the retina, and the optic nerves
regularly transmit information to the brain. But even though
this man is able to sense the light that hits his eyes, he won't
be able to "see things" for a while. That's because there are
no "things" stored in his database of visual experience.
What one "has never seen" is something that "can't be seen".
When you can't "see things", you are unable to perceive the
outside world."... continues

Nobuhiro Fukui
May, 2007