Publisher/赤々舎

Google翻訳
"Akane to Ume" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Jiro Nomura (1972-). Born in Tokyo, Nomura studied at the "Night Photography School" and won the Visual Arts Photo Award Grand Prize in 2009 for "Distant Eyes." While using people close to him and everyday scenes as his subjects, he has captured the distance and anxiety lurking beneath the surface of intimacy, as well as the presence of life and death, in quiet monochrome. This book is a compilation of the time Nomura has spent with his family, which he has been photographing for many years. The title "Akane" is the name of his wife, and "Ume" refers to the plum grove surrounding their suburban home. Portraits of his wife and family, interiors, views from windows that appear repeatedly, plum blossoms in full bloom, swirling water, a dog in the snow—these are all lined up as equally fleeting beings, and even though he photographs the people closest to him, a quiet tension and a subtle distance permeate the images. This work also shows how the gaze toward Akane and his family, which also appeared in his previous work "Distant Eyes," has deepened with the passage of time. This book captures the radiant light of life, which shines all the more brightly because it contemplates the inevitable passage of time and the fragility of existence in our daily lives. (Missing dust jacket.)