Publisher/Little Big Man

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"My Bloody Hand" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Momo Okabe (1981-). Through works such as "Dildo" and "ILMATAR," Okabe has explored themes of gender, intimacy, and the vulnerable state of the body. In this book, she creates works that depict the process where loss and birth intersect, centering on her experience of miscarriage and subsequent pregnancy and childbirth. The structure, in which images of preserved blood observed under a microscope are interwoven with everyday photographs, appears to further expand Okabe's practice of exploring the boundaries between the inside and outside of the body, and between life and the invisible. This book is not a simplified story of regeneration, but rather a collection of works that attempts to capture the process of transformation itself, which includes uncertainty and pain. The photographs, imbued with rich colors, bring to life the moment when emotions and memories transform into images, and without idealizing motherhood, they quietly question the fluctuations that accompany the generation of life. This book connects Okabe's ongoing exploration of intimacy and wound to a new question of life and generation.