In 2008, Toyokazu Nagano, like proud parents do, started taking pictures of his daughters: eating breakfast, playing outdoors ¡ª slices of everyday life. However, for each candid and touching image he took, he was vexed by missing another perfect moment, so he decided to take some of the ¡°moment-making¡± into his own hands.
He also joined Flickr, and soon his creatively composed photographs, from the all-natural to the elaborately staged, began to be passed around art and design blogs. His younger daughter¡¯s prop-driven antics on a ¡°magic¡± farm road are especially eye-catching, and most recently, his ¡°Kiss Me Please Project¡± has been melting hearts around the Net.
Nagano, who doesn¡¯t hesitate to take his self-portrait while sitting on a toilet and wearing a mask shaped like a camera, applied his unique sense of humor to our interview questions as well.
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