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IV. “To Capture” and “To Return” — Photography as Reversal of the Act

Ordinarily, photography is regarded as an act of capturing reality.
Within the Zero-Horizon framework, this act is reversed:
to capture is, in essence, to return—to offer the world back to itself.
To photograph light is to translate light into prayer;
to grasp shadow is to embrace silence.
Photography thus becomes not an act of possession but of offering,
a ritual of receptivity in which the world discloses itself.
In this sense, photography approaches the sacred.
It is not documentation but invocation—
a quiet participation in the self-revelation of being.
To face the threshold of zero is to stand before the unknown without fear,
to dwell within the fluctuation of existence,
and thereby rediscover the meaning of “being.”
木 村 尚 樹
fine art photography
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