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Rinko Kawauchi, As It Is, 2020

38 Euro

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A blue sky. A shimmering river. The birth of a new life. These are the first three photographs from Rinko Kawauchi’s book As it is. This new body of work returns to Kawauchi’s earlier photographic focus on her personal universe through family, memory and time. This book presents a succession of mundane moments and gestures ―  a spider’s web, a bowl of rice, a small hand pointing at an insect ― along with more significant ones ― her daughter’s first steps, family outings, the passing of a close relative. The personal narrative of the book is punctuated by a photograph of a kitchen window witnessing the passing of the seasons, and short texts by Kawauchi herself interspersed in the sequence. The pages navigate between the inside and the outside, always within close distance as, through her unique eye, Kawauchi effortlessly catches the fleeting beauty of the in-between moments, telling the story of an ordinary family going through life just as it is.

Rinko Kawauchi, As it is

Chose Commune, 2020

Published in collaboration with the Japanese publisher torch press
Edited by Nao Amino and Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi

Text by Rinko Kawauchi
Design by Akiko Wakabayashi
18 x 23 cm
144 pages + 18 insertis with text
113 photographs, softcover

French, English
ISBN 979-10-96383-17-7

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