1983 (bottom) | Jun Abe | Vacuum Press 2024

1983 (bottom) | Jun Abe | Vacuum Press 2024"I tried to keep my mind as open as possible, tried to grasp everything without rejecting anything. The city became a place of marvels, full of events and things. And it still is to this day." Jun Abe

presenting the beauty of the north filtered through the author's aesthetic

Yamamoto has said that she wants

The book is conceived as an artistic object demanding intimacy — something you want to protect & treat with care

The lingering aesthetic sense of the ancient people of these places is vivid in Matzubara's photographs

I believed in the sliver of light that was captured in the darkness

so pristine and devoid of the presence of man that it seems to come from another world

When the tides rise

A rarely seen volume

this was almost unheard of in Japan

With the encouragement of a friend of her father Yasumichi

It serves as a reflection of the things that are often taken for granted

The wilderness of “Dōtō” provides a feeling of oneness with the majestic natural world that I had never before experienced