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Statement by the photographer, Miyako ISHIUCHI
"There are many reasons to move. In my case, one morning I was suddenly overwhelmed by an eerily compelling sensation that I shouldn’t be here anymore.” (© Miyako ISHIUCHI)
Background information
"In the photo volume 'Moving Away', Japanese photographer Miyako ISHIUCHI herself becomes the subject of her photography. In the three years between suddenly deciding to move out of the house in which she had lived for 43 years and her actually moving, she took a series of landscapes, streetsnaps, detail shots and still lives around her house and neighborhood that all – either directly as a mirror image or indirectly – feature her in some way. she documents the end of another chapter in her life with attention, sentimentality but also decidedly positively.
Content
This photo volume, 'Moving Away' by renowned Japanese photographer Miyako ISHIUCHI, shows full-paged color photographs in documentary style. All texts included in Japanese and English translation. The book is limited to 600 copies.