Two photographers,Annie Leibovitz and James Nachtwey

I watched two documentary films about two different kinds of pfographers.

First I woudl like to say about Annie Leibovits who is one of the very famous pfotographer.

Leibovits was born in Warterbury, Connecticut. Her mother was modern dance instructor and her father was a lilieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. When she was a high school student, she became interested in art and she went to San Francisco Art Institute. She lerned not only painting but also photograph then. In 1970, she started to work for the launches Rolling Stone Magazine. She developed her career then. After 1980, she started to work forVanty Fair magazin.

Actually I didn't know her before, but I knew her work which is the photograph of Jhon Lennon and his wife, Ono Yoko . This is really famous photograph also in Japan. When I saw at first, I got a shock. John Lennon is really famous person in the world, but he show his weakness in this photograph to all over the world. And this photograph became his last work.

Leibvovitz's work always give us a big shock. And her works are so elegant, beuatiful and passion. I like her works. When she took Pfotograph, she looked really happy and enjoy. I thought, that's why she could make such a lively photographs. Some time she made really mysterious one, but all of her works fascinated me. I want to know and see more her works!

James Nachtwey is war Photographer and Photojournalist. He is from NY. First he started to work as a pohotographer of the newspaper publishing company. After he became free journalist. And he went to overseas. First he went to North Ireland to collect data for civil strife. After then, he spent time in South Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe.

He is really different from Annie Leivovitz, because he never took portrat. He just tell us real things. His works show us what happen in the world, especially wars and conflicts. We saw really shocking world from his photographs. But his photograph is also artistic. He could show us sadness and shocking world by artistic way. He made many black and white photographs, i felt really cold and sad from this kind of photos. If he takes photo with color, I was impressed less than black and white one because black and white makes photos more sad and cold.

Annie leibvovitz and James nachtwey are different kinds of photographers. Annie workes at the really bright and gorgeous world, but hames workes at the really dangerous and dark world. But they are same artists, ther works are really artstic which fascinate people. I like both of the photographers.

Japanese People～お母さん～

Today I would like to introduce one of the japanese people who has a strong relationship with me.

My mother.

Her name is Kiyomi Tsukiyama. Her home town is Okayama prefecture, when she moved to Tokyo for work, she met my father and they moved to Shiga where our family lives now.

She is really short person who has only 149cm.
She likes animals, especially she loves dog. We have a pet, Chihuahua, she devote lot of her affections to our pet, maybe she give more her affection to the dog than i and my brother receive it.
She is talkative women, when my friends visit my house, she always join us for chatting. Sometime I don't want her to join us....

She is interested in international curtural exchange, so we became a host family for exchange students all over the world. We hosted 6 or 7 exchange students at my house.

And every exchange students said that Kiyomi is is the best host mother.

She is not strict person, and she always makes us fun, so exchange students live a comfortable life in japan with my mother.

And still we continue to contact with exchange students.

She calls them every their birthday.
Sometime exchange students come back to japan to meet her and thay stay our house during holiday. She is always welcome to come back in Japan.

And she also trips to countries where exchange students live.

She said that she has many houses in the world.

I and my mother have quael all the time. But I like my mother and I am proud of my mother.
She is not only our mother but also mother for many exchange students in the world.