Don't forget about a Fox

This series is a documentary work from a "personal perspective" that I proceeded with after discussing with a female journalist of National Geographic, who I met after participating in an international photo festival in Serbia.

I had been living in Thailand for the past ten years. Being in Thailand for my husband's work is not an unhappy thing. However, it is true that there is a tendency to feel peer pressure in the small Japanese community and to try to get everyone to go in the same direction. The language barrier, being a foreigner and feeling like you are living in a glass box. Then I came back to Thailand again this year, and four years ago I took up photography, and it changed my life. I realized that if I had a subject to photograph, I could get out of that glass box. One day I went to the zoo. It was a zoo on top of a department store, and there were flamingos roaming around. I was in front of the fox's room, amidst the sounds of tropical birds. Through the thick glass,

the fox was staring at me blankly. It was then that I remembered myself from ten years ago. Now I'm looking at the fox from the outside. But now I felt that I loved myself back then.

And in this work, I have added texts in English, Japanese, and Thai. I have always been convinced that I should write in English when I publish my work. The reason is that it is a widely used language. I have to ask myself why I made this assumption. I don't want to be a perfect speaker of another language. I live in the space between three languages. And there is a mixed language that is born from that, and that is what I am now. I feel that creations are born from the small mistakes and misunderstandings that arise in this process. Furthermore, I believe that the problem of the disparity between urban and rural areas in Thailand is also manifested in the language

.(* Exhibited with translation in Thai, Japanese, and English)

© hitomi hasegawa - Whose is the mother tongue? Why don't you speak Thai?
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Whose is the mother tongue? Why don't you speak Thai?

© hitomi hasegawa - Image from the Don't forget about a Fox photography project
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Here--------- Lets start a meeting---------- We-----crows are------------ By the crows-------- For the crows------------ Hurry Hurry !

© hitomi hasegawa - The taxi driver told me “Get off and you should take pictures here!”
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The taxi driver told me “Get off and you should take pictures here!”

© hitomi hasegawa - My grandfather who passed away used to tell me " See, you are a kind of person who goes here and there all the time."
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My grandfather who passed away used to tell me " See, you are a kind of person who goes here and there all the time."

© hitomi hasegawa - The guy was staring at nothing.
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The guy was staring at nothing.

© hitomi hasegawa - Don't forgret about a fox
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Don't forgret about a fox

© hitomi hasegawa - Image from the Don't forget about a Fox photography project
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Ah.. yeah I was shooting when I was riding a bike on the back sheat. It was a very hot day. I went a café sweating bad. It was closing soon. I felt sorry for them and asked for a bit expensive one. So I asked a drink decorated with orange and leaves. The leaves looked like fern. I checked the menu carefully and found that the drink was “Cannabis “  oh no I asked for a drink with marijuana.

© hitomi hasegawa - Image from the Don't forget about a Fox photography project
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And in the country I am about to live in, I am also someone who will go somewhere sooner or later. It is hard to say exactly why I have been photographing these people. However, I feel a sense of security in the absence of stability. That's what I'm trying to express.

© hitomi hasegawa - Are you ready to depart? No! not yet!
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Are you ready to depart? No! not yet!

© hitomi hasegawa - Image from the Don't forget about a Fox photography project
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The Thai guy told me that I can let him go after I spend 10 years with it. But you are still here. I hope you stay being happy. It was grateful really. There is nothing more honorable than being proposed by a tiger, don’ t you think?

© hitomi hasegawa - Thai king’ s official name
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Thai king’ s official name

© hitomi hasegawa - Image from the Don't forget about a Fox photography project
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Sunny sky, green , yellow , blue, and white. It is like I was in elementary school when I did not have anything to worry about. It is like feeling of Sunday afternoon, safe and satisfied.

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