Background information
"Rei USHIGAKI took the photographs in his book 'Ie no kaze' (The Winds of Home) between 2010 and 2021, during numerous visits to the city of Minamikyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture in the south of Japan. This is where the roots of his family lie. After the death of his grandmother and grandfather, the Japanese photographer realized, that he knew very little about his family’s home, that he has not seen much of the region where his grandparents spent much of their lives.
Content
This captivating series of black-and-white images in the photo volume 'Ie no kaze' (The Winds of Home) - a succession of wide landscapes and singular details, important events and everyday nothings - acts as a photographic conversation with a place that is both strange and the source of one’s own roots, as a document of a continuing coming and going, of an almost-arriving and never-quite-leaving, of intimateness and distance.
Additional information
The book design of the photo volume 'Ie no kaze' by Rui USHIGAKI is made by Katsuya KATO.