
Sokohi
- Publisher
- Chose Commune
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 979-10-96383-33-7
- Specifications
- First edition
Editorial direction: Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi
Desing: bureau Kayser
Text: Moe Suzuki
150 pages
102 plates
25,7 x 18,2 cm
Hardcover wire-o binding
English / French / Japanese
This book won the 7th edition of the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles in 2021. Its publication was made possible by the award's founders, Les Rencontres d’Arles & the LUMA Foundation.
At the border between the visible and the invisible, Sokohi documents the sensation of blindness as it settles, as well as the power of the imagination that arises from it.
As her father gradually loses his sight due to glaucoma, artist Moe Suzuki begins to document the daily life they share together. The resulting images are mixed with photographs from the family archive, as well as those taken by her father. Through these images, Moe Suzuki attempts to show what sighted people can see but her father cannot, and to imagine what her father sees but others cannot.