So isnt't there another way to show them without using commonly prainted photographs? Photographs feel rather impudent and very official. Photographs make what is not true look true and accepted as true. They tend to hinder the expression of the personal memory or homage of the missing houses. Thus, I decided to put color to photographs.

Coloring black and white printed photographs. These images are neither photograph nor painting, or between the two. Needless to say, they hagve no fundamental difference from the hand colored photography which was done by many photographers in the early days of this art. But I myself do not feel like making any difference between the both.

After printing images through a printer, I try coloring them. It is not so easy to find proper pigments. Experiment continue with different color sources like oil colors, water mixable oil colors and etc. I failed one after another, having a failure rate higher than my expectation. The crucial point lies in the disparity of impression between ordinary color photographs and images made by coloring black and white printed photographs.