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- Stay
- Charlotte Dumas
- 916Press
- 2016
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- Nina
- Erik van der Weijde
- 4478ZINE
- 2016
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- Tokyo Parrots
- Yoshinori Mizutani
- amana — IMA PHOTOBOOKS
- 2014
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- The Rumour
- Paul Kooiker
- Art Paper Editions
- 2020
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- Zoo Animals
- Kota Sake
- bookshop M
- 2021
A frequent visitor to the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Kota concentrates on animals in captivity in his photography. Though stylistically sophisticated, there is neither warmth nor coldness in his photographs, just pure observation. With each new photograph, an unsettling sensation begins to grow in the viewer. Kota explores relationships like seeing/being seen, comforting/being comforted, and compels us to come face to face with uncomfortable questions about the natural world.
“They sleep in an artificial space, they get fed at determined times, and if they get sick, they will be treated by doctors.
Always gazed upon by humans.
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Their silence confronts me with the abyss of my own existence.”
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- Strolling in between: Deer and people on Wakakusayama hill
- Yuko Tada
- Buffalo Press
- 2018
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- Howling Winds
- Vasantha Yogananthan
- Chose Commune
- 2019
Howling Winds is the fifth chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology and has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted through time.
Since 2013, Yogananthan has been travelling from north to south India to Sri Lanka, retracing the itinerary of the epic’s heroes. Between fiction and reality, he deliberately blurs the lines through multiple aesthetic approaches.
At the end of chapter 4, the wicked Ravana abducts Princess Sita. While Rama is in great distress, hundreds of thousands of animals from all around the world gather to search for Sita. They know that on the far shore of the ocean is the bright and shining island of Lanka, where Ravana is living.
Shot along the coastlines of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, Howling Winds mixes classic color photographs with acrylic hand-painted photographs to echo a world of magic.
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- Flowing
- Wayne Levin
- Datz Press
- 2014
American photographer Wayne Levin makes photographs of organic seascapes that are united into the underwater space. Made in space without gravity, as if flying in the sky, Levin’s black and white photographs remain as mystical illusions of light.
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- Ornithological Photographs
- Todd R. Forsgren
- Daylight Books
- 2015
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- A Sensitive Education
- Francesca Todde
- Départ Pour l’Image
- 2020
With A Sensitive Education the photographer Francesca Todde explores, through the figure of bird educator Tristan Plot, the possibilities of empathy between different natural species.
The narrative, far from being a naturalist documentation, is rather focused on the emotional sphere and sensitivity of birds and humans. The photographic research develops in resonance with the delicacy of this wordless dialogue.→more -
- Appetite for the Magnificent
- Tania Willen, David Willen, Jörg Scheller
- Edition Patrick Frey
- 2017
Appetite for the Magnificent is a photographic and essayistic exploration of the history and present-day world of the aquarium. David and Tania Willen focus their lenses on the pictorial, aesthetic dimension of present-day aquariums in Swiss zoos and Switzerland’s high-end aquarium scene: public and private labs in which “aquascapers” design animal-vegetable-mineral gardens of aqueous delights. These moving-picture aquascapes float between the poles of reality and virtuality, presence and absence, the animate and inanimate world. The fish swimming around in the tank may be present as living, breathing creatures, and yet we also perceive them through the glass as images of fish. In the Willens’ photographs, all shot from the front, the fish seem suspended in mid-air, an effect that brings to the fore the virtual side of the aquarium: it is nothing short of a precursor to the television set.
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- Trapped
- Alex Hanimann
- Edition Patrick Frey
- 2018
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- Via Lactea
- Alfio Tommasini
- Edition Patrick Frey
- 2020
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- Des oiseaux
- Paolo Pellegrin
- Editions Xavier Barral
- 2021
This new series by Paolo Pellegrin celebrates the eleventh title of the collection Des oiseaux (On birds). Magnum photographer best known for his works testifying to political, economic or even ecological upheavals, his curious mind leads him to focus on subjects that are sometimes more contemplative, where nature holds a major place. Thus, during a stay in Japan in 2019, Paolo Pellegrin, who left to witness the blooming of the cherry trees, is more struck by the majesty and the aerial ballet of a colony of black kites flying over the temple of Shimogamo, Shinto shrine of the 7th century, in the heart of a primary forest.
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- Des oiseaux
- Rinko Kawauchi
- Editions Xavier Barral
- 2021
This new series by Rinko Kawauchi celebrates the tenth title in the collection Des oiseaux. The Japanese photographer focused on swallows in Spring during birthing season in her neighborhood in the city of Chiba and, in particular, on the tiny nests that the birds build in window openings or in the underside of roofs, in order to protect their broods, which are fed by their parents for several weeks. Fascinated by this spectacle, with her characteristic poetry and sense of detail, Rinko Kawauchi brings out the marvelous in our daily lives and the ephemeral beauty of suspended moments. The swallows, thanks to their sharp wings, perch everywhere with ease and elegance, bathed in an opalescent light.
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