ハイスクールはダンステリアGirls Just Want To Have Fun

I first started taking photos when I was in high school. I wondered what interesting photos
I could take one-handed with a disposable camera. In the classroom, me and my friends tackled this challenge very seriously, although we were also shrieking with delight.
The baton twirling club would often practice
on the stair landing between the gym and the school building. Most of the popular, pretty girls were in this club. They were all cute and radiant, and when they danced it seemed even more that their radiance would rain down on us. Next to them we would play at jumping as high as we could from the stairs and trying to capture that moment on film. It never got old, we always gave it our best and we were constantly hungry for more.
While we were doing this shoot, I remembered that we were totally different from the girls dancing so hard with big smiles, but that’s what high schoolers are like.
A photograph is good at showing the viewer something that only the photographer could see at that time. As we were photographing these girls, I noticed that the salivation of my “brain drool” had begun, and that high school was a danceteria!

When you use the panoramic feature on a smartphone to take a picture, if the subject moves then it ends up having an unexpected figure in the photo. It’s like a bug that occurs when you’ve edited a photo and it ends up depicting a motion occurring over a certain period of time, and our idea was to use this bug, so to speak, to produce a work.
Instead of using a camera for taking still images, we used a 4K camera made by RED
to take five-second clips, clipped the human movements from the footage and re-edited the material into a single photograph.
The combined shape of the subjects’ appearance from one second before and one second afterward are freaky. And although they are of course freaky, we made it a point to make the finished photographs look cute
as well.