This is a parable to think about photography and freedom.One day, you are given a camera,and told to “take any picture that you want.”Well, how do you feel?You are free. You can take any picture.You become a photographer who got sentenced to freedom.You might think like this.Can I point the camera directly to my favorite things?Can I attract other people’s interest by taking that photo?I feel uneasy not knowing whether the things I want to picture are available around me or not.Other people may think I am weird because I hang around while holding a camera.Can I still continue? Will these excuses ever stop?According to Erich Fromm,Freedom, in essence, can be found in loneliness.So, if a picture feels hollow,or has a decadent, self-righteous, or negative tendency,it reflects the feeling of loneliness coming from the freedom of a photographer.On the contrary, a person who takes photographs with a hope that viewers will push the “like” button, likewise wishes to erase his/her feeling of loneliness.Jonathan has been taking pictures freely for many years in Tokyo.In order to preserve the magical moments that appear in the familiar city,he endures loneliness and enjoys freedom.His photograph is to heal modern humansAnd this book is also an answer to such freedom.There are 41 monochrome photos taken with a small film camera. 46 pages.