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"Light Years," a collection of works by Japanese photographer Masumi Ishida (1998-). Ishida began taking photographs while still in high school and has attracted attention as a photographer who captures the daily lives and emotional fluctuations of her peers with a fresh sensibility. Her gaze, which carefully observes relationships with those close to her and fragments of everyday life, inherits the tradition of intimate candid photography that began with Kotori Kawashima, but is characterized by being supported by a sense of being a participant in the same time. This book is Ishida's first collection of works and consists of photographs documenting the days she spent with friends she spent many years with at an all-girls' junior and senior high school. Taken with the earnest desire to preserve even a small part of the moments that were about to be lost as time was about to end with graduation, the collection of photographs not only captures the brilliance of friendship and youth, but also quietly conveys bewilderment and a sense of loss as time passes. What is depicted is not a special event, but ordinary everyday life such as classrooms, rooms, and the way home, but these are the things that only become irreplaceable memories later on. This masterpiece, which resonates across generations, embodies the origins of Masumi Ishida's approach of viewing photographs not merely as records, but as vessels for memory.