Toshiya Murakoshi - A gradual Thraw (signed)

Toshiya Murakoshi
A gradual Thraw

Published by Case Publishing, 2017
Size: 26 x 36.8 cm
34 pages, 14 images
Hardcover
Signed by the artist

The silent and powerful landscape photographs that make up Toshiya Murakoshi's series "A Gradual Thaw" were taken in his native Fukushima Prefecture between 2011 and 2015. With this project, Murakoshi searches for traces of his own memories.

"If photographing one's hometown means getting rid of the ideas and objects acquired at birth and chasing after what remains at the very end, then photographing different regions is an attempt to find and acquire new things, ideas, and interests and to try to see how far this process can lead."

Toshiya Murakoshi was born in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, in 1980. He graduated from the Nippon Institute of Photography in 2003. In 2009, he established the TAP gallery in Kiyosumishirakawa, Tokyo. Murakoshi received the 2011 Japan Photography Association Newcomer Award and the 2015 Sagamihara Photograph New Face Incentive Award. His works are included in the collections of the Tokyo National Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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