Haruhiko Kawaguchi aka Photographer Hal is a Japanese contemporary photographer who focuses primarily on the subject of love. HIs most famous work comes from his series, “Flesh Love” and “Flesh Love Returned,” where he vacuum-seals couples and shoots them in the couple’s most important place. The purpose of this series is to show how strong the force of love could be. Love could be so strong, that it can be crippling, and even fatal. He captures love as claustrophobic and tension filled. Photographer Hal has 10 seconds to shoot or else the subjects could suffocate.
“This series that I’m working on started with a couple vacuum-sealed and photographed against a white background. Then, we went to the place where the couple had gone on their first date, and vacuum-sealed them there,” – Haruhiko Kawaguchi
“That’s when I had the idea of vacuum-sealing not only people but the background as well. This project started with the idea that by vacuum-sealing the background along with the subjects of the photo, I would be able to bring out a different flavour and not only focus on the couple’s worldview.”- Haruhiko Kawaguchi
Flesh Love Returned
Flesh Love
