Sentimental Education is a portraiture of my family in bathing. 

I used a 4 x 5 camera for the series because the formal aesthetic and distance offered by the large format allows me to grasp details of casual moments, including those influenced by the physical relationship between people and the surrounding elements. 

Constantly affected by the complex environment, our bodies and feelings are always moving and flowing.  The appearances of the people in the images show subtle impressions which waver between vulnerability and flexibility, openness and hesitancy, and intimacy and loneliness. 

Water gives us a pure sense of physicality.  Bodies soaked in water, wet hair, skin with droplets of water, and views through the mist--these fragments which are ingrained in our memories give nuance to our general emotions. Although bodies can never merge, the emotion flowing outside each entity transmits into others and develops a universal vibration which, I hope, will stream into the viewers.