『DOTO 3』
¥500 Sold out
240x180mm / 32p / Soft cover
100 copies
Published in 4 November 2017
PINE TREE BOOKS
遡上するカラフトマスを捕えるヒグマを見たのは初めてだった。
友人の釣り船に乗り、知床半島のルシャ湾で強風と荒波と狭い船上に翻弄され、カメラを構えることに必死になった。
対岸のクマはこちらを気にすることなく目の前の魚に夢中だ。
友人には『ベタな写真を撮ってるな』と言われたが、この光景にときめいてしまったのだから仕方がないし、それで良いと思っている。
向こう側には行ける気はしないが、この距離が僕の立っている場所を教えてくれる気がしている。
＜本書あとがきより＞
This was the first time I had seen a brown bear catching a pink salmon swimming upstream. I was aboard my friend's small fishing boat, being thrown about by strong winds and the raging tide just off Rusha Bay in the Shiretoko Peninsula, as I tried desperately to steady my camera.
The bear on the other side of the bay didn't notice us, as it was too engrossed in the fish before it. My friend said to me, "Don't take such a clichéd photo!" But, overwhelmed by the scene unfolding before my eyes, I couldn't care less if it was a cliché.
Although it didn't seem as though I could reach the other side, I feel like this distance has taught me the place in which I stand.
<From Afterword>