“I don't care about the composition of a picture. I just take a picture of a subject as I see it in front of me. I don't intend to explain a subject by its photograph, nor do I intend to give information about a subject by its photograph. Before I take a photograph, I never think what, how or why I am going to take a picture. I always carry a 35mm camera. And just when I feel something in what I am seeing in front of me, I try to capture an image of it on film. I want to capture on film the feeling which I feel, for example, when a light breeze blows on the beach at the end of summer. What does not exist for the senses, does not exist in the intellect.... I shoot when I see myself in an image and the image in myself. To take a photograph to me is to objectify myself in the photograph. I take photographs to fill an emptiness in my life. I will never fill the emptiness. I will just go on taking pictures. These images may be my personal illusions and they might be my personal obsessions.” JUN SHIRAOKA (Brooks Johnson, Photography Speaks – 150 Photographers on their Art, Apperture Foundation / Chrysler Museum of Art, New York, 2004)