Shikiko Endo 遠藤 志岐子 > July 2010 – Featured Pinhole Photographer

Shikiko Endo 遠藤　志岐子 is a female pinhole photographer currently living in Tokyo, Japan who creates unique color and black and white photographs using homemade and purchased pinhole (lensless) cameras.

2010 pinhole self-portrait of Japanese photographer Shikiko Endo

私が針穴写真に出会ったのは偶然の連続だった。
でも今改めて考えると、その偶然の積み重ねは、必然であり、運命だったのだと解る。
それは出会った瞬間に恋に落ち、そのまま片思いを続けているようだ。

空を撮るのが好きだ。青く青く抜けるような空が好きだ。
雲が流れていくのを撮るのが好きだ。
重たく垂れこんだ雲を撮るのが好きだ。
一日の終わりの日が沈むのを撮るのが好きだ。
じっとその日の出来事を振り返りながら。
キラキラこぼれ落ちる太陽の光を撮るのが好きだ。
自分の町を流れる川を撮るのが好きだ。
穏やかな海、荒れた海を撮るのが好きだ。
風に揺れる花を撮るのが好きだ。
線路のある風景を撮るのが好きだ。
車窓を流れる景色を撮るのが好きだ。

私は私の身の回りで繰り広げられる、自然の営み、人の営みを
針穴写真で撮り続けたい。

針穴写真。それはただ写真を撮るだけではない。
被写体を撮りながら、そこに自分の心を流し込む。
私の針穴写真から、私の心の声を感じてもらえたら、私はうれしい。

English Translation of text above.
It was continuous that I had met the pinhole photograph of a coincidence. But the accumulation of the chance is necessity and understands it when I think some other time now when destined. It falls in love at the moment when I met you and seems to just continue unrequited love. I like to take the sky. I like sky that comes off in blue and blue. I like to take the float of the cloud. I like to take the cloud that drips heavily. I like to take sinking of the last day of a day. While quietly looking back on happenings of the day. I like taking solar light to run down shiningly. I like to take the river that flows in my town. I like to take the quiet sea and the troubled waters. I like to take the flower that shakes to the wind. I like to take scenery with the railway track. I like to take the scenery that flows in the car window. I want to continue taking the natural working and the working of the person developed around me with the pinhole photograph. The pinhole photograph. It doesn’t only take the photograph. My mind is poured there while taking subject. If the voice of my mind can be felt from my pinhole photograph, I am glad.

CK → It’s a pleasure for me to bring talented artists like this to light. Shikiko truly is dedicated to practicing the art of pinhole photography. I enjoy how she takes the viewer’s mind and imagination on ride while she travels and uses her pinhole cameras. Her images give the viewer a chance to experience a moment in time viewed through the pinhole-eye of her camera. Thanks 遠藤　志岐子 and may your creative path lead to many more wonderful images. -Chris

Color film pinhole photograph of a spring Japanese landscape of cherry trees blossoming

Color film pinhole photograph created while riding an amusement ride in motion. Photo by Shikiko Endo

Two of Shikiko Endos color pinhole photos made into a diptych

A diptych of a color and black & white pinhole photo by Shikiko Endo put together by Chris Keeney

Two color film pinhole photographs of lights combined to create this diptych

Color film pinhole photo of the sunlight shinning through the forest canopy creating flare

Pinhole photographic diptych of a Japanese dragon fountain and a field of yellow and orange poppies

Two color pinhole photos of Japanese photographer, Shikiko Endo riding the train. Diptych by CK

Two pinhole photos - On the left Shikiko Endo riding the train - on right pinhole flowers - diptych by CK

Two color pinhole photographs created by Japanese photographer, Shikiko Endo

A collection of homemade pinhole cameras (as well as a PinHolga) by Japanese photographer, Shikiko Endo

You can find more of Skikiko’s photos on her Flickr photostream

All Photos Copyright © 2010 Shikiko Endo (遠藤 志岐子) and Reproduced by Permission