
Even So
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Hardcover, black and white
233 x 230 mm
84 pages
79 images
English / Japanese
Limited edition of 250 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 塚本明彦 / 赤川延美 (typesetting)
Printing: 株式会社サンエムカラー
Cozy Wakita presents a book of street photographs and everyday snapshots. Printed in black and white, the photographs seem to have been taken as a natural extension of the act of looking, as if captured directly through the eyes with no camera involved. Moments of seemingly no great significance, caught at festivals, in parks or on the streets, are interspersed with strange, almost surreal and humorous snapshots. In the afterword Wakita lists small gestures, looking up at the sky when the rain stops, gazing absently into blooming flowers, turning around for someone charming, and calls the pictures short poems sparked by a small light, a flash; this glaring and absurd reality will go on fascinating him for some more time.