Here’s an interview with Rinko Kawauchi, titled “10 minutes with Rinko Kawauchi.” Unfortunately it’s notable for being extremely uninsightful. Here’s my favorite part:
Your photography is truly inspirational. What is your inspiration?
I get the inspiration, for example, while taking a nap, it is a form of meditation.Do people have a common sense of beauty? What is yours?
It is a big, nice question. It is hard to define what is beautiful and it depends on people but I still think we share the same things.
Sometimes email interviews can work out, but this one was dead in the water before it even started. Cue discussion of “Japanese inscrutability.”
My favorite snippet within that:
Q: Japanese and European cultures seem to be quite different. Is your work received similarly at home and in Europe?
A: I don’t think so, we see it in a common way.
Oh.
I’ll go for scrutability (Elliott Erwitt example ).