RINKO KAWAUCHI - Light and Shadow

Rinko Kawauchi
Light and Shadow

Published by Super Labo, 2014
Book size 14.8 x 21 cm
Pages 74 Pages / 47 Images (color)
Binding Hardcover
Full color Offset
Japanease and English text
Limited edition of 1000
ISBN 978-4-905052-67-8

"April 2011. Ishimaki. Onagawa. Kesennuma. Rikuzentakata. All these places were just so quiet. I realized for the first time how quietness connotes fear. There were no sounds. Instead, there were only fragments of what used to be part of peoples’ lives, strewn about in piles on the ground. Against this leveled ground of rubble, the sky looked broader and more expansive than ever. Standing there for a while, I considered the smallness of my existence; so small that even a gust of wind could have blown me away. In that moment, I could also feel the reality of standing right here, in this body. To grasp that we exist, silence is necessary. And that silence is joined to fear.
In that quiet space, I saw a pair of pigeons—one black and one white."
Rinko Kawauchi

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Avril 2011, Rinko Kawauchi découvre le silence des villes détruites par le séisme. Elle capture ce fragile balancement entre l’avant et l’après, entre la lumière et l’ombre, symbolisé par une de ces premières photos prises après la catastrophe de deux oiseaux : l’un blanc l’autre noir.