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Background information, personal statement by Yasushi MORI
"This photograph collection is a story of love I and Hattori-kun have spun together.
At my house I have a cat named Hattori-kun. Hattori-kun fled from Futaba, a town in Fukushima, when the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the area in 2011. At the time, I wasn't much interested in photographing cats.But as I spent time with Hattori-kun, I gradually became attracted by his solitariness and at the same time his loveliness.
One day, when I was looking at the photographs in the last few frames of the roll of film I had taken, there was Hattori-kun with an expression on his face that was just like mine. From beyond the coarse granularity of the photographic film, those eyes gazed steadily back at me as if clinging desperately to life. Far from home, completely domesticated, here was his true nature, the expression of a wild animal he showed for a brief moment only to me.