Coming closer

A long-awaited enlarged edition of a concept book which was published in 2005 as Tsuda’s first publication. It includes unpublished new photos along with words written in process.

Works in the book consist of multi-photos as one set. Tsuda, in explaining the reason for using set of photos rather than one photo says, “There is a gap between the images of two eyes. I wanted to hold on to the sense till the end. For this reason, the unit ‘one’ didn’t exist for me.”

He often did not put film in his camera at that time. Therefore pictures shown in the book were taken on days when he had put the film in, with dates becoming the title of his works.

Yet the information of the location is kept anonymous. They are frozen lakes, volcanoes, snow-covered mountains, etc., which are vaguely written on Japanese map with updates being very slow. “I believe that to capture an incident is to offer a place to where it has not been situated yet,” Tsuda says.