Photographer: Shota Nagase

"The wings of the Phoenix!"
2015. I found the Phoenix for the first time in the blurry failed photo of the fireworks.
The root of the image is the manga "Phoenix" by Osamu Tezuka, which I read at the library when I was in elementary school.
I was fascinated by the exquisite story with very shocking depictions and countless productions, and Osamu Tezuka created my mysterious sensibility.
And the "Phoenix" that I had been fantasizing about for a long time was reincarnated in the panning photograph of the fireworks that I devised.

Taking countless sparks as a soul, a completely unpredictable trajectory of light creates a lifestream and becomes a phoenix with eternal life.

A world that no one has ever seen.
That is my "Phoenix Photo".