７月初め被災地でお手伝いした。仕事はドブ掃除と仮設住宅への引っ越し。どうせ行くならスタイルを持ってとアホな事を考え東北新幹線はやぶさ、その前週はバンコックでタイの友人達と遊んだのだがバンコック東京間はファーストクラス。被災地で写真いっぱい撮ろうと意気込んでいたのだが着いて見るとその被害の凄まじさに唖然。とうとう一枚も撮る気になれなかった。自分がはずかしかった。９月末に今度は岩手で土方やったのだがデジカメは札幌に置いて来た。自分の眼でしっかり観ておきたかったし、匂いを覚えておきたかったし、波にのまれてしまうまでそこで生活していた人たちの声を聞いておきたかったのだと思う。僕はもうはずかしくなんかなかった。
Early July I was helping out in Tsunami damaged Miyagi Prefecture. My job were pack&moving man and street cleaner. I was cynical enough thinking if I have to go there, then with high class style; I took new Tohoku Shinkansen HAYABUSA to Sendai Station, and a week before I was in BKK playing with my dear Thai friends and I flew BKK-NRT in first class. I was planning to take a lot of photos in Tsunami area, but once I saw how devastating damaged areas were, I lost my words. I was just ashamed of myself. End of September I was this time in Iwate Prefecture for clean up, I left my Dejikame in Sapporo home. I wished to watch through my own eyes, remember the smell of the towns once were there, listen the voices of people once were living there until waved took them away. I was no more ashamed.