
Hotare
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2022
- Specifications
- Hardcover, black and white
255 x 255 mm
66 pages
45 images
Limited edition of 500 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 加藤勝也
Printing: 株式会社サンエムカラー
A quiet journey through the seaside towns and rural areas of Japan that is remarkable for its unremarkableness. Travelling to and wandering through these towns, Manabu Someya pays attention only to his own sensations and feelings to choose and frame his images, rather than taking a cerebral approach. The series is undramatic, with village corners, street lamps, house facades, streets and shores photographed like character studies of specific places. This unagitatedness shows the maturity of a photographer confident in the essence of photography, and makes it a joy to look at the photographs again and again.