
See You Soon
- Publisher
- Bemojake
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN
- 9780956247018
- Specifications
- Flexi cover
96 pp
195mm x 245mm
60 colour
Text in English / Japanese
Photo-Eye Best Book of the Year 2010
Selected in Sean O’Hagan’s Top Ten Photobooks of 2010, The Guardian
See You Soon is a photographic narrative exploring the development of a relationship between the photographer and a woman from Tokyo. The book presents the progression of intimacy between the two, documenting the private journey from their first meeting through to her departure on the expiry of her visa.
As a love letter, or diary, it engages the reader in a highly emotive, affectionate and personal period of time, capturing these emotions with a snapshot camera in everyday and sometimes mundane scenarios. It has been edited in such a way as to form a full narrative, but within the pages individual exchanges are present, revealing short passing stories and moments within the whole.
“The story is told beautifully, bittersweetly, as if each picture were a lamentation of their predestined separation, once her visa expired at the end of summer.” — Melanie McWhorter, Photo-Eye