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People Who Watch People Having Sex in the Park, and the Man Who Photographed Them
Kohei Yoshiyuki is a Japanese photographer best known for "The Park," a series of hilarious, depressing, and creepy photographs of people watching other people have sex in the public parks of 1970s Tokyo.
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Kohei Yoshiyuki is a Japanese photographer best known for The Park , his series of photographs of people watching other people have sex in the public parks of 1970's Tokyo. It's that exact mix of hilarious, depressing, and creepy you'd expect to get from pictures of people hiding in bushes and touching themselves, and it's great.
The photos are currently being exhibited in Liverpool’s Fact gallery and are displayed in a darkened room. Once you arrive, you're given a torch to guide your way around the space and witness the peepers in their natural habitat – darkness. It’s a creepy but oddly intimate experience, and adds another layer to the project, turning you into the voyeur as soon as you start perving on all the perverts.
That exhibition is running alongside some of Yoshiyuki's other famed work, The Hotel ; a series of grainy stills from hidden-camera footage taken in one of Tokyo’s many “love hotels” – places used exclusively by prostitutes and their clients. I called up Kohei to find out what's so special about shooting people at their most vulnerable.
VICE: Hi Kohei, how did you first get into photographing voyeurs?
Kohei Yoshiyuki: I was walking in a park in Shinjuku late at night, when I came across a scene. A couple was having sex and I saw these people were watching them. That experience inspired me to try to capture these shocking and fascinating night scenes.
Was it common knowledge what was going on in the parks at the time?
I only knew by hearsay that this stuff was happening in Toyko's parks. A park is a place where we usually see children and their mothers relaxing during the day, but the same park can host a completely different world in the darkness. I found there to be something amazing about that.
How long did you work on the project for?
I photographed the scenes of the couples and the men who were peeping on them from 1971 until 1973. Before shooting, I spent about a half a year trying to arrange the project.
If you knew where to go to find the voyeurs, how come it took so long to start?
What I needed to do first and foremost was to make the voyeurs believe that I was not a photographer, but just one of them. Otherwise I would have been severely beaten or had the film pulled out of my camera. During this period, I also spent time studying the techniques and the best equipment in order to capture these scenes in darkness. I used infrared films and infrared strobe, which was considered a sort of expert-level photography skill at the time.
Was it purely heterosexual couples in the voyeur scene?
I had an exhibition – Kohen (The Park) – at a gallery in Tokyo in 1979 with the photographs that I took in the early 1970s. After this solo exhibition, I decided to publish a book and I was looking to include some more images. It was around that time that I learned about the gay couples meeting in a park and, in that same year, I began to take photographs of them gathering at night.
Are they all taken in the same park?
I mainly shot at the Shinjuku Central Park, and partly at the Yoyogi Park. The gay scenes were taken in a park in Aoyama, a different area of Tokyo. All of the parks were next to the downtown area in the center of Tokyo, though.
What was it about voyeurism that fascinated you so much?
My interest wasn't exactly in voyeurism itself. The scenes fascinated me as a whole – the couples having sex in the park, the people watching them or even touching them, as well as the background scenery and environment of the city. They were scenes that had never been photographed and I thought the subject would make an interesting series.
Why were the Japanese so into voyeurism in the 70s? Is it still popular now?
Back then, the parks were a vital part of the city. They were rare blind spots in the urban jungle where people could behave freely. The act of voyeurism, for the voyeurs, was a kind of game; they did it for the thrill. The risk is the fantasy.
Did you only come across male voyeurs?
Women can also enjoy voyeurism, but they're more realistic and don't take the risk of doing such absurd things. I don’t know if voyeurism is popular today, but we now live in a surveillance society and people feel more controlled, I guess.
Yeah. What was the weirdest thing you saw while working on The Park ?
Thievery was always funny. There weren't only voyeurs in the park, but also robbers hiding in the darkness. One time I saw a woman totally absorbed in her love affair – she was kicking her bag away without noticing. A robber tried to steal her bag. I watched him approach her without realizing he was being watched and surrounded by other men. When he finally did notice them, he ran away in fright. The more professional robbers would work in a group and try to block the voyeurs.
Were the parks seen as seedy places at the time?
All these scenes in my photographs are “weird”, as you said, but during shooting I felt like the couples and voyeurs were acting on a ridiculously innocent sense of desire. So I think the weirdness of the 70's was more primitive than the weirdness of the 80's, when the sex entertainment industry got more developed.
You’re exhibiting The Park alongside another series, Love Hotel . What was it about the secret footage that appealed to you?
I liked the blurred and faintly outlined images from the monitor screen with the scanning lines. We can vaguely see the bodies of people who are sharing embraces. I thought this invisibility might appeal to the viewer’s imagination, rather than showing the actual scenes with clear images.
How did you get access to the videos?
I can’t give you a precise answer about the source of the videos. They were taken by the couples who stayed at a love hotel room and were to be used only by them so they could enjoy watching themselves having sex. The videos should have been erased automatically, but there were some videos that hadn't yet been erased at a love hotel that was going out of business.
What are you working on at the moment?
The town I’m living in now is neither a big city nor a rural area. There's nothing markedly attractive about this place; it has a strange atmosphere – like a crime scene. For example, when I'm in a small and quiet park with colorful playground equipment in a residential area, there's nobody there – no children playing. I’m interested in that kind of emptiness, which I feel has a hidden anxiety or an atmosphere of crisis. I’m not sure I can capture the feeling, but I’m trying to.
Sounds great, thanks Kohei!
All photos by Kohei Yoshiyuki, from the series The Park. Untitled, 1979. Gelatin Silver Print © Kohei Yoshiyuki, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
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The pair have been captured on camera in a park on the west side of Manhattan lying next to each other.
At first, the couple are mainly hidden by a concrete partition.
But as the cameraman gets closer, a man in a straw hat appears to be fiddling with his fly while kneeling.
The woman he is with lies on the ground, with her legs spread around the man.
The man then lies down on the left leg of the woman with his arm around the lady.
But the couple turns around quickly when they realise that they’re being filmed.
The unabashed pair surprisingly told the person filming: “We’re just playing around.”
But when the filmer continues to stand and film the couple, the angry man sticks up his middle finger in the camera’s direction.
The man, who appears to have a stars and stripes band around his hat, then continues to kiss the woman.
The woman continues to hold a can of liquid during the exchange.
The pair are seen making out right next to a pram as families and children walk past.
Other passers-by called the police.
According to the person who took the video, the man fled the scene before the cops arrived.
The video was uploaded to LiveLeak this morning and has been viewed over 30,000 times.
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THIS is the shocking moment a couple were caught “moaning” while having sex in a park just yards from playing children.
The pair were filmed romping near a pond in Hull’s Pearson Park and one stunned witness said they were “changing positions” and “moaning really loudly”.
They were just 30ft away from families when they lay down together and started removing their clothes in broad daylight.
Ivo Suits, 29, caught the couple – aged in their late 30s – but they brazenly just smiled and continued to have sex despite him asking them to stop.
During his video, he said: “Come on guys, there’s kids around. Come on, not in here.”
But the man replied: “You shouldn’t be filming.”
Mr Suits told Hull Live : “There were families and kids running around, playing, riding their bikes, enjoying their time on the park.
“Suddenly this man laid down on the grass and pulled his shorts down and let the woman give him a h*** j**."
“They just didn't seem to care one bit about the people or anything, they obviously knew there were people out there and children.
“By the time I got there they had already been at it at least five minutes, changing from different positions, both moaning really loud with no respect in what they were doing whatsoever.
"They just smiled back at me and didn't want to stop. It made me very angry and upset because they just did not care what they were doing and who was watching.”
The Sun Online has contacted Humberside Police for comment.
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