
Subete wa hajimete okoru (Everything happens for the first time)
- Publisher
- Match and Company
- Year
- 2011
- Specifications
- Portfolio in a box
460 x 380 mm
Box 392 x 478 mm
Each photograph 265 x 400 mm
15 photographs
Limited edition of 350 copies
M label No. 21
Katsumi Omori's project of spring 2011, after the great earthquake and tsunami of northern Japan. Having photographed cherry blossom at many places across Japan since 2001, he made a road trip north from Tokyo and from Urayasu, the suburb where he lives and works, through Fukushima, Iwaki, Hirono, Minami-Soma and Iitate, places damaged by the tsunami and the nuclear accident. The book holds 15 vertical pictures of cherry blossom, each with a pink reflection inside. It is remarkably large in scale, and its pages are not bound: the sheets are loose and unbound, coming in a box, so how to look at them is left entirely to the reader.