
NOZOMI
- Publisher
- Akaaka Art Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-056-3
- Specifications
- 182 x 257 mm
112 pages
Awarded the 14th Visual Arts Photo Award
Photographs taken through the windows of high-speed trains travelling between Osaka and Hiroshima from 2014 to 2016. The scenery that usually just streams past as lines turns out to be a collection of extremely real points: farmers at work in the rice fields, a grandfather walking with his grandson, children playing in a river, students exercising in a schoolyard. High shutter speeds and panning catch these instants that passengers hardly ever see, in a piling up of moments that jurors and fellow photographers describe as a new kind of documentary, with a distant, almost otherworldly view of contemporary Japan. The book carries comments by Daido Moriyama, Yoshihiko Ueda, Kotaro Iizawa, Masato Seto and Shunji Dodo.