イギリスで行った写真プロジェクト「Un/Masked」がNews Week日本版の特集「Picture Power」で取り上げられています。このプロジェクトは、2018年に日本で行った取材で感じた違和感をきっかけに、英国の修士課程在学中に発達障害の当事者である友人と取り組んだものです。私が撮った写真と、彼らが撮った写真・テキストで構成されています。「障害の有無」という二項対立に単純化できない、生活環境における個人の内面の機微を通して、社会の中にある態度的な障壁に疑問を投げかける試みです。

The photographic project on the lived experiences of neurodivergent individuals, which I conducted with friends in the UK, ‘Un/Masked,’ is featured in ‘Picture Power’ within the latest issue of the magazine ‘News Week’ Japanese Edition. My initial motivation for the project dates back to 2018 when I reported a social issue around job seeking by people with disabilities in Japan and interviewed some neurodivergent individuals. Through a collaborative process with the voices of those involved, which is to say, “photographs of subjects” and “photographs by subjects”, the project not only celebrates the ordinary lives of neurodivergent individuals and conveys ambiguous relationships between them and their living environment, which cannot be defined the dichotomy “disabled or non-disabled,” but also questions attitudinal barriers in society.