First released in 1986, QuickSnap is a disposable camera that integrates film and camera into a single unit. Before the widespread adoption of digital cameras, it was once a hugely popular product.

I chose to use QuickSnap on New Year’s Day, a moment that carries a quiet sense of significance. The location was Shibuya. It is a place I have photographed many times, a kind of personal home ground. By returning to a familiar setting, I hoped the distinctive qualities of photographs taken with QuickSnap would become more apparent.

Using QuickSnap again for the first time in decades, I was reminded of its inherent limitations: the slight mismatch between the viewfinder and the final image, and the inability to review photographs on the spot. These constraints felt both nostalgic and unexpectedly refreshing. The limitation of just 27 frames also sharpened my attention to each exposure, allowing chance and unpredictability to play a more visible role.

The photographs taken with QuickSnap carry a sense of nostalgia, yet they unmistakably belong to the present. I would be glad if viewers could sense this quiet tension between memory and the present moment within these images. ■

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All photos in this article were taken with a FUJIFILM QuickSnap and edited in Lightroom.

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投稿 Street Snap #48 Shibuya on New Year’s Day captured with FUJIFILM QuickSnap は The Tokyo Snap に最初に表示されました。