Breathless | Tsubasa Kawaguchi | Fugensha 2023 [SIGNED]

After coming across a broken camera with a slightly magenta color tone, he took color photographs of the summer with an awareness of the present and future. Kawaguchi photographs subjects such as cicadas, thickets, sunflowers, sandy beaches, bug nets and riversides, schoolyards, and families, all within the time axis that only photography can provid, resonating with the summer scenes in our collective memory.

The rough cut, red dotted pages edges ads a tactile experience to this interesting book.

“Through the grass and bushes, a woman in a white floral dress with the hem rolled up walks ahead. As I follow her, thoughts and memories waver in my mind, only to be drowned out by the buzzing of the cicadas. Like a young boy about to make a mistake, I feel my heart beating furiously. What can be done? I can neither stop nor proceed. Humans are restrained, but photography should be freer and more open.” - from Tsubasa Kawakuchi’s foreword