Publisher/Kuma Publishing

Google翻訳
Sayama Lakeside Cemetery, a collaborative work by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura and photographer Risaku Suzuki, is a large-format book set in Sayama Lakeside Cemetery in Saitama Prefecture, documenting the site on multiple levels through architecture, words, and photography. Nakamura's architecture, which emphasizes relationships with nature, topography, and physical sensations, quietly stands as part of the landscape without asserting itself, capturing the flow of time and the presence of prayer in the cemetery. Meanwhile, Suzuki's photographs, without being relegated to architectural commentary, maintain distance and silence, capturing the shifts of light and seasons, highlighting the inherent temporality of the place. Rather than juxtaposing architecture and photography, the book offers a reexamination of the same place from different perspectives, quietly questioning the nature of shared spaces as landscapes, without asserting death or memory.