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As it is

by Rinko Kawauchi

Photographs: Rinko Kawauchi

Publisher: Chose Commune

144 pages

Pictures: 113

Year: October 2020

ISBN: 979-10-96383-17-7

Comments: Softcover, 18 x 23 cm, 144 pages + 18 inserts with text (French/English), Editorial direction: Nao Amino and Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, Design: Akiko Wakabayashi, printed and bound in Japan

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.

This book was made in close collaboration with Japanese publisher torch press.

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As it is

by Rinko Kawauchi

Photographs: Rinko Kawauchi

Publisher: Chose Commune

144 pages

Pictures: 113

Year: October 2020

ISBN: 979-10-96383-17-7

Comments: Softcover, 18 x 23 cm, 144 pages + 18 inserts with text (French/English), Editorial direction: Nao Amino and Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, Design: Akiko Wakabayashi, printed and bound in Japan

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.

This book was made in close collaboration with Japanese publisher torch press.

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