Every year since 2011 Sachiko Kadoi has photographed the marshes around Nemuro at the beginning of spring. Her contemplative, slow-paced photographs depict scenes that usually pass unnoticed by the human eye: dead grass emerging from a thawing layer of snow, naked trees forming a cold forest, vegetation slowly coming back to life, parts of animal carcasses. Nemuro is the last place in Japan where cherry blossoms bloom; spring comes slowly there, and the death of winter lingers for a while before nature revives. Kadoi works with deliberation and great care, and the photographs exude a reassuring sense of hope. In the afterword she notes that a lot has changed over ten years: her favourite area is now lined with windmills and large solar panels.