Ryuta Sakurai, The dog’s name is Senta

The dog’s name is Senta

Ryuta Sakurai

Publisher
89books
Year
2025
ISBN
979-12-80423-83-2
Specifications
Softcover with dust jacket
23 x 23 cm
40 pages
43 color photographs
Digital print
Design by Sakurai Ryuta

This is a series of photographs of my father’s dog, Senta, and some friends from my hometown, naked together. The reason I started this project was because dogs have a much shorter life span than humans. While Senta is alive, I wanted to create a work of art with him and bequeath it to his legacy. Senta is a grey toy poodle who is very friendly and playful. Most people feel tender and will smile when they hold the soft and fluffy fur of little Senta in their arms. I want to photograph the life of our beloved toy poodle Senta, sublimate him as a kind of artwork and treat him specially. I strongly hope that Senta’s photographs will be printed and spread around the world while being archived publicly so that he may be alive forever in another way through the permanence of photography

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