If your life can reach 102 years old, what would you want to do?
Will you give yourself more fresh possibilities?
A 102-year-old grandmother, she has playful short hair, red wide-framed glasses, and dresses sewn by herself in the fabric she collected from all over the place. Her nails and perfume were carefully matched with her mood, and she kept smiling. She is exploring how to still be a "curious girl" at the age of 102.
She is a Japanese photographer |Samoto Hiroko |, considered to be Japan's first female photographer. She used her camera to record the rise and fall of Japan in the past century.
26, because of the saying "Japan doesn't even have female photographers" made Shigeko Sasamoto have the idea of trying photography. She put down her brush and picked up her camera. A year later she entered the newly established "Photography Association" and became the first female photographer in Japan with the encouragement of the founder. To this day, "because I like my job very much," she said. After entering the industry, she began to record the various aspects of people's livelihood before and after the official launch of World War II by Japan. This was a very rare behavior at that time. At the same time, her works gave people a deep impression and attracted great attention from the outside world.
1962 Hiroshima Atomic Blast Memorial Hall
Professional wrestling athlete Ridoshan (1954)
After marriage, Shinko Sabumoto left the photography industry for a while. Faced with the choice of family and work, she finally chose to devote herself to photography reports. After the war, Japanese magazines and media developed. During this period, she paid attention to people's lives and recorded the living conditions of all walks of life. The great changes and progress of society are also fully displayed under her lens.
Geisha School (1951)
Japanese famous writer, journalist and historian Demoto Sufeng (1957)
Japanese politician and socialist Asanuma Inamijiro (1955)
. After the signing of the security agreement, Japanese magazines went bankrupt one after another, and photography was difficult to make a living. At this time, the 49-year-old Shizuko Sasamoto used the design knowledge he learned in his early years to open his own clothing design store. Until now, the clothes he has worn by Sasamoto are designed and made by himself.
Her curiosity and exploration of new things goes beyond that. At the age of 52, Shinko Sasamoto began to learn flower styling design. For more than ten years after that, she worked as a lecturer and business in related professional fields.
71 years old, at the age when most people should enjoy their years, Sasamoto Yoshiko picked up the camera again. She found out the old photos she had been put in for decades, and after sorting them out, she held an old photo exhibition of Showa era to take people back to her era.
In 2011, she published her autobiography "The Girl with a Strong Curiosity, 97 years old this year". She accepted an interview with the media and shared her experiences and mentality with everyone.
In 2013, she began a photography plan with flowers as the theme, hoping to use flowers to commemorate those friends who have passed away.
After Hengzi experienced a fracture at an advanced age, he started to actively rebuild with just one sentence, "I still have a lot of things to do", without fear.
Exhibition hall picture
After recuperation, she picked up the camera again, "Dongdongdongdong, I'm going to take a picture of the day when my heart stops beating." She persisted in this matter for 102 years. She used the camera to tell everyone that curiosity is not a word that can only be used to describe childhood.
Curiosity is a lifelong thing. The world in front of the camera has different fresh states every day, and the people behind the camera also have millions of possibilities that are not afraid of time.
We will rush to finish what we want to do most at the age of twenty or thirty, as if we leave this golden period of time, the days ahead will no longer be exciting.
In fact, as long as you are willing and devoted, you can start what you love at any point in time; as long as you persist and work hard, they will become a career that will accompany you for life.
What we want is not just ten or twenty years of excitement, what we want is the courage to still be independent when we are eighty.
(A Japanese grandmother's selfie became popular on the Internet. The old lady's name is Nishimoto Kimiko , 88 years old, from Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Influenced by her husband, she started her career as a photographer at the age of 72 and started learning to edit photos with Apple computers at the age of 74. Many years ago, she also won the local photography award and held a personal photography exhibition.)
What we want is that we can get rid of the boredom and be our own girl in our twilight years.
(She is the grandmother of a photographer named "Jia Jia not black" on Weibo. Jia Jia asked: Grandma, I have many girl skirts here. Do you want to become young? Grandma thought about it and was moved.)
(via.@Jia Jia not black)
What we want is to be grandparents, have the initial love and gratitude for nature, and have a gentleness to the whole world.
("Misao and Fukumaru" is a photography series taken by Japanese female photographer Miyoko Ihara. It tells the story of the 88-year-old grandmother Misao and the kitten Fukumaru she picked up.)
What we want is that when we are 102 years old, we can still pick up the camera and record everything we like and dislike; when we are 102 years old, we can proudly open the album and say to the children:
"Look, this is the era I lived in, it is what I see."
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