Artist Statement by Satoshi Nishizawa:
I create with camera and the photograph. That means I must have something that I am longing to know or unable to understand about what I am seeing. However, because my purpose is not the picture itself, I always have an option to just pause and look with my own eyes without carrying the camera. My photographs are little off for having this option.

You must realize here the question that is raised is not the choice between “the photograph and the naked eyes,” but the mathematical problem asking you to “measure the distance between the photograph and the unaided eye.” In the attempt to calculate this distance, both “photograph” and “naked eye” merely are symbols, “X” and “y.” While still hesitating over a choice between the two, you would only be able to reach the solution around x≒y. You will need “z” or the “+,””-,” “x,” and “y.” I do not know how difficult this calculation is.

For the time being, the photo media would keep expanding, and you will continue to recalculate the distance with each advance.

After all, the answer is not in the photographs.