Yoko Kusano 草野庸子
Across the Sea
Collector's edition 56 copies
with silver gelatine print (127mm x 178mm)
signed
88 pages,
56 color plates
hardcover, embossed
text ; Japanese and English
book design ; Katsuya Kato
size ; 183mm x 222mm x 14mm
roshin books 2018
ISBN 978-4-909742-00-1
price : 23,000 JPY
Across the Seaは、草野庸子が初めてロンドンに訪れた時に撮影した写真で構成された作品です。
日常の機微を繊細に撮影することを得意とする草野にとって、初めて触れるロンドンの光景に対してはどこか距離感のあるような視点から物語は始まりますが、次第にその新しい世界に感じる小さな孤独も自身の中へと織り込んでいき、目の前に差し込まれる光へと純粋に呼応していきます。
どこか眠たげでありつつも、時折鮮明な眼差し。福島から上京して一人で過ごす東京での生活で感じる孤独と、初めてのロンドンで感じる孤独も結局は同じようなもので、彼女の視線の先に映るものは世界のどこにいても「今」という時間でしかない。
roshin booksではそれを丁寧に一つの作品へと創り上げました。
1993年生 福島県出身
The photobook “Across the Sea” consists of photographs taken by Yoko Kusano during her first stay in London.
For Kusano, whose photography captures everyday life’s intricacies in sharp detail, it is her first contact with the city and its sights. Her story begins from somewhat distant viewpoint, but gradually Kusano accepts the muted loneliness she feels in this new world and begins to react purely and harmoniously to everything her eyes encounter.
Her gaze somewhat blurred and sleepy, her vision yet lights up occasionally. The loneliness of London is the same loneliness she had known in Tokyo, after moving there on her own from her home in Fukushima. What Kusano sees before her is, after all, nothing but the same present moment as it exists anywhere else in the world.
With great care, roshin books has combined Kusano’s experiences into a single photobook.
Born in Fukushima in 1993