Look and Read | How to look at street photography

This time I will read this photo.

I will confirm the information I was looking at when I took the picture.

1/ The supermarket.
2/ It is a food court.
3/ There are parents and children with their children eating.
4/ An old mother and her daughter are resting.
5/ The daughter on the left of the picture is looking at the family on the right.
6/ There is a space in the middle of the family on the left and the family on the right.
7/ The daughter on the left is in her fifties. The mother on the right is in her 20s.

The situation at the time of shooting.

I was eating lunch when I came across this scene. I immediately took a picture.

Explanation of the “Look” part.

The family on the right in the photo. I think the adult woman is the mother. It is very rare to raise three children in Japan today. And it is very difficult to take care of three people’s meals at the same time.

Especially in Japan, where harmony is important in public places, I think this mother took care of the following things.

If the child makes a lot of noise, it will bother others.

2. If the child makes a mess, it’s hard to clean it up.

As for point 2, no Japanese person would ever leave a public place dirty. She also cleaned up the place afterwards and left.

And all the people around her understood that she cared about these things. Because it is a characteristic of the Japanese to be able to empathize with these things.

Of course, the woman sitting on the left side of the photo was also aware of this.

So, the woman on the left was sending a sign that she sympathized with the feelings of the woman on the right.

In this photo, you can feel the air of mutual concern. This is the unique atmosphere that Japanese people have for each other.

But this is the “Look” part. That is, what I was aware of when I took the picture.

The next part I will explain is the “Read” part.

What caught my attention was the family of the young woman on the right side of the photo. I think she is in her twenties. The woman on the left. I think she is in her fifties.

There is a big difference in life events between people in their 20s and 50s, regardless of gender.

For women in their 20s, it is marriage, childbirth, and raising children.
Women in their fifties are caregiving, menopause, and perimenopause.

I felt that this contrast in life events is the distance that exists between two women who are leading the same life.

To summarize.

The message I put into this photo is twofold. One is “harmony,” which is unique to the Japanese people, and the other is “a woman’s life.