What is reflected in a photograph? As a rule, whatever was on the other side of the lens the moment the shutter was pressed will be captured in the photograph. However, when I look at Kosuke Okahara’s photographic works, there are emotions and murmurs lurking in the depths of the subject’s expressions, and in even in the deepest black shadows gravity and heat are palpable. Without using my perception and emotions beyond my sense of vision, I could not grasp this fully. How was he able to capture such photographs?—it was such a simple question but as I listened to him speak, I realized how foolish that question was. After all, he doesn’t concern himself about “how to shoot” in the first place. What he wants to encounter through his photographs is that nebulous magic and pure surprise scattered throughout the world, yet it cannot be found through planning. And for that sake, he wants to remain sincere. In the humanity of him speaking calmly about what he was thinking at the moment in addition to the all the changes up until now, it suddenly came to me from a place outside of reason that this is the kind of person who could photograph like that.