[One of the Japanese photographers] Yoshiyuki Kohei's "Park" - Peeking at the Field Battle "Takata Chicken"

Akio Nagasawa, a Japanese photography curator, said that an exhibition should not only be academic but also entertaining. In the "PROVOKE" exhibition held in Hong Kong in 2018, the most suitable one is the "The Park" series of works by Jixing Koping. There is a room surrounded by black cloth at the exhibition site, and the audience uses a flashlight to "photograph the frog". The work in it is the photos of people peeping at couples' field battles taken by Yoshiyuki Genpei, which seems to restore the scene at the time of shooting.

Yoshiyuki Kohei came up with the idea of photographing this park spectacle when he spotted a group of people peeping at a couple having sex in a park in Shinjuku. However, he was not in a hurry to shoot, but spent half a year on field trips to convince those voyeurs that he was one of them, while researching the technique of shooting with infrared flashbulbs. The "Park" series of photos were shot in Tokyo's Shinjuku and Yoyogi Parks. The pictures of voyeurs watching couples stroking and making love were taken into the mirror (they also filmed gays in Aoyama Park later), some were hiding in the grass, and some even took the opportunity The former "pumping" strokes the girl.

In fact, he was one of the voyeurs himself, but Yoshiyuki Genpei did not admit that it was a candid filming act. Compared to the scale of Nobuyoshi Araki or Daido Moriyama, these photos do not seem to be exposed or pornographic, but those subtle and tense images are more readable than their works. The rough and chaotic images also reflect the atmosphere at that time to some extent.

On a deeper level, these photos are actually discussing issues such as human desire, privacy, and voyeurism, which seem to be valid in the present. Think about it, aren't these voyeurs the ubiquitous CCTV? The eyes of the sky are wide, and everyone is being monitored unconsciously, but there are always people who violate the rules.

Ji Xinggengping was born in 1946, became a photographer for a telecommunications company in 1974, and became a freelance photographer in 1978. These photos were taken by him from 1971 to 1973. When they were exhibited in 1979, they also attracted attention and discussion in Japanese society. Like many Japanese photographers at the time, Kohei Yoshiyuki's work was little known abroad until his first overseas solo exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York in 2007, when his fame began to spread.

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More Park photos: Yossi Milo Gallery