NEW SCHOOLGIRL COMPLEX

[Machine Translation] This is the first new work in seven years from "School Girl Complex," a series of representative works that photographer Hiroki Aoyama has been creating since 2006. This series was born from Aoyama's personal experience of a "complex" that prevented him from making eye contact or even having a face-to-face conversation with girls in his class, and now he cannot even remember their faces. Transparent shirts and socks, legs stretched out from checked skirts, the backs of knees, moles and scabs. These traces of individuality, hidden beneath the uniformity of the uniform, were the object of Aoyama's fantasies and desires, but at the same time, they were also accompanied by a strong sense of fear and awe. Aoyama sublimates these complex emotions into photographic expression, attempting to extract the differences hidden in homogeneous images as "symbols. This latest book in the series, "NEW SCHOOLGIRL COMPLEX," is his first completely new series in seven years, and the focus of the photography has expanded from "the distance between Aoyama and the girls" to "the relationship between the girls. The "SCHOOLGIRL COMPLEX" series, which I photographed from 2006 to 2021, was a schoolgirl complex, but as I photographed and aged, I gradually got rid of it. NEW SCHOOLGIRL COMPLEX, which I have been filming since 2022, is an attempt to depict the complexities of relationships that arise when women are grouped together, through the complexities of their relationships.

写真家・青山裕企のベストセラー、「SCHOOLGIRL COMPLEX」シリーズ7年ぶりの完全新作撮り下ろし。