Ballistics is an abstract meditation on the violence and tension hidden in everyday life. At times Koichi Kuroda's colour photographs depict street scenes, with special attention paid to children. In other places his eye turns to urban emptiness, where he studies the patterns of lines and shadows. Towards the end of the book the photographs hint at the title, as he photographs the flight patterns over the Gotemba base in Shizuoka. Kuroda shot the work over a period of about ten years, in locations all over the globe: Sao Paulo, New York, Toronto, Tokyo. Taken as a whole, the work conveys his experience of these places to the viewer. His text asks what proof to cling to in order to drink water at all, on the street, in the metro, at the foot of a mountain, in a shopping mall, being open and closed like a substance, and speaks of the outline of violence and the outline of the human.