
The Dreaming
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2020
- Specifications
- Softcover, black and white
246 x 224 mm
104 pages
86 images
English / Japanese
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 somnolent journey through a monochrome world. On turning fifty, Yasuhiro Ogawa went back over the negatives accumulated over the years, found there the self of the days spent travelling, and looked at the prints in the darkroom as if in dialogue with that former self. In the afterword Ogawa notes that 27 years earlier he had taken the ferry from Kobe to Shanghai and set out on a long journey through Asia that took him to China, Myanmar, India, Cambodia, Tibet and other countries, and that it now seems like a dream. The photographs, developed and edited many years after the return, present the travels as impressions from a dream; the black and white creates the world as seen through the eyes of a young adventurer overwhelmed by what he sees, who surrendered to the experiences and sights he met.