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1977 born in Japan.
Start taking photographs at 14 years old.
2010, Autumn “DAWN" was released.(From AKAAKA)
2014, Summer "A man Living above the clouds" was released. (From Seizansya)
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Yu Yamauchi, who has loved taking pictures since he was a child, began taking different kinds of photos when he was in junior high school and would regularly make them into a series. Yamauchi says, “At the time, it was interesting to find that the way I see things is not exactly the way they come out on film.”
After he completed his studies in college, Yamauchi worked as an assistant for a photography studio. He then realized that he was not the type to take commercial photos and wondered if he should continue photography. When he heard from a friend that they were looking for someone to work at a lodge in Mt. Fuji, he decided to go, because he was planning to travel anyway. But there he met a person who would change his life.
Tsuguhiro Seki(関 次廣), who ran Taiyoh-kan(大陽館), a lodge at the seventh station of Mt. Fuji, did not like the modern ways of climbing Mt. Fuji or the lodges. The visitors would spend the night at the lodge and head for the peak while it was still dark to see the sunrise. Then they would take pictures of the sunrise and hastily leave.
In our everyday lives, we unconsciously see the world through a frame that matches the scales of human society. However, Mt. Fuji, 3776 meters away from daily human life, is a different world. There, we stand in a world of pure nature without the frame made of a man’s scale. There, there is a chance to realize who you really are, and what the world really is. Seki thought that this kind of opportunity for a person to be able to feel that he is a part of the universe, was the true meaning of climbing a mountain. This kind of thinking is lacking in recent Mt. Fuji climbers. Most people would... [Great article continues at http://xamoschi.com/2015/02/08/dawn-yuyamauchi/] undefined