
Empty Sky
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2018
- Specifications
- Hardcover, colour
243 x 260 mm
94 pages
87 images
Edition of 400 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 加藤勝也
Printing: 株式会社サンエムカラー
Koji Otsuka's second photobook is a nihilistic look at the emptiness within a city filled to the brim with people and objects. The high-contrast street snaps were taken in and around Tokyo in the mid-2000s and open our eyes to the reality we live in. In the afterword Otsuka describes the Japanese character for sky seen just outside the window of the room where he had drifted to, a character that, depending on how it is read, can also mean air, space, emptiness or the void; it seemed to peer over the wall from the other side and to ask him questions.