Photographer Hal is, as the name suggests, a photographer in Japan. While that may not sound unusual, one glance at his output and you’ll see this is not the stuff you tend to encounter on Flickr.
Photographer Hal creates amazing vacuum-packed photography in which naked couples embrace each other in a plastic bag.
“Photographer Hal started packing couples together in futon vacuum bags to preserve their love forever. The process to achieve this eternal image is very organic and each couple can only be left inside the seal bag for 10 seconds.”
Using futon sealing bags, the images both symbolize what a condom does — protecting while bringing you together — and also the act of sex itself. The effect is both eerie and sexy.
Here is how Hal describes his work:
The image of the power of love was further pursued from the work photographing the vacuum packed couple remind me a tale that the star which finished the lifetime contracted, and it became a black hole, finally it inhaling everything.
That’s why I started to put a couple in vacuum sealed bag with much things used at their daily life or their work, or their favorite thing. When they live like the embryo who lives to nutrition and the figure apparently clothed in the disorderly thing on the body goes amniotic fluid in the interior of the womb, they are required things, and the thing which followed the fate chosen as them like all the things of a nature and which has stuck, and its arrangement are necessary.
Moreover, their personality and beauty were condensed by there where it harmonized completely, and the energy of love is full.
His latest series of “Flesh Love” photos — which have been getting some big press attention worldwide — is for Condomania, the brilliantly quirky mini condom shop on Omotesando, “an iconic condoms shop in the center of Tokyo that strives to promote safe and protected love to its audience.”
Here’s a making-of video.
Photographer Hal’s brilliant other includes “Couple Jam” where couples pose while lying down together in bath tubs.
