67 Shooting Back
67 Shooting Back is a counterattack launched by Araki at 67 years old against digital photography and the status quo of beauty. Produced with a 6 x 7 film camera, this series gives prominence to married middle-aged women, who are identified by Araki as 'real women' of 'lives full of faults and with a dirty side.
When Araki says "All women are beautiful," it is not a metaphor. In fact, he took many photographs of the aura of dying flowers and married middle-aged women. Araki's emotions towards the subject lie etched in all of these photographs. However, he does not just stay in love with the subject. As he says, "I took many censorable photographs that I cannot include in publications. But I think the crazier, the better." He expresses his rebellious spirit as an artist.
