japanese photography - the space in between

21 Apr 2015 8 min read

Emi Anrakuji: Mapping Embodiment

One of the most distinctive photographers to have emerged since 2000, Toyko-based Emi Anrakuji has built a reputation on handmade photobooks and striking collections published by Nazraeli Books. Even her gallery shows feature

27 Mar 2015 11 min read

Japanese Photography in 2015: the Master List

This is a great moment for Japanese photography connoisseurs and enthusiasts. For a long while now, photographic japanophilia was an interest that had to be nursed solely with foreign book purchases, the rare North American exhibition (or the less-rare European one), and abundant, if limited, use of

10 Mar 2015 4 min read

Zen Audacity in Eikoh Hosoe's Barakei: Consideration of an Image

This is it. The image that forever did me in, the one that turned me into a Japanese photography addict. To tell you what you are looking at is one thing, and flatly

10 Jul 2005 11 min read

what little girls want: the art of miwa yanagi

miwa yanagi creeps me out--in all the good kinds of ways. her images carry the capacity to go from surface to psychological in lightning-quick speed, and what lay in the subconscious afterwards folds into complex unease with a lingering, distinct aftertaste...her visual problem-solving mingled with

29 Oct 2004 8 min read

The Art of Losing Love, pt.2: Seiichi Furuya and Christine Gössler

i first came to seiichi furuya through his most famous image, the contact sheet that shows his wife's suicide, or more precisely, shows him showing us his wife's suicide. and then coming to him through all the questions which follow such a fantastically passive event. is it mediation? astonishment?