Sometimes when I’m travelling, I want to record everything on video, but then sometimes it ruins the whole thing. IT: No, I started taking photos when I was in Brazil, before that I hated to take a pictures, because sometimes it disturbs the moment.ĪA: Yeah I understand, I have mixed feelings about it. IT: I’ve been across the United States, Germany, France, Netherlands, Iceland, Spain, Denmark, Malta, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Curaçao, Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago.ĪA: My god. IT: You mean like why I came here first time? I was traveling South America from Argentina to Colombia at the time, and I met a friend who was from Venezuela, so I wanted to visit my friend.ĪA: Which other countries have you been travelling and working as a photographer?
Izumi Takahashi: I was born in Tokyo and normally live there as well. FORMULAIC QUESTIONS, GENERIC ANSWERS: Awesome results ✓Ībraham Araujo: Can you tell me your birthplace, and where do you live now? The invitation is to immerse yourself comfortably in the exchange with the help of a good sound system or, at least –if you have it in hand– a decent pair of headphones. The resulting interview (below) has been divided into several sections. Neither of us knew the language of the other our common languages were English and music. We also compared our cultural contradictions and similarities.
Rather than theorize or intellectualize, this curiosity prompted us to take an audio-visual walk between artists, forgotten scenes, and musicians that impacted or resonated with us. In addition to sharing similar opinions regarding counter-culture, arts, and music, a curiosity for sound and the visually stimulating was our guide through this spontaneous conversation. Strangely captivated by our chaos and diversity, he decided to spend a substantial season in Caracas between 20. He comes from the Shibuya district (Tokyo), and after having been practically all over the world, he landed almost by accident in Venezuela.
My guest in this multimedia interview and virtual reference chat is Izumi Takahashi, a self- taught nomad photographer and freelance editor, with an eye for cityscapes and a curious music digger. How could you communicate with a perfect stranger? Someone who comes from a distant country, speaks another language, reads and writes in characters completely different from yours, and would logically be more than lost, culturally, in a place like the city of Caracas. You can call it music, arts, design, sense of humor, sex … any of them. But there is something visibly powerful, which has been palpable for hundreds of years, that clearly points more toward progress than toward anything else. We are living at a time when the construction of huge walls is being announced, both in the present and in the –supposedly promising– future. Between Izumi Takahashi and Abraham Araujo
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