Publisher/ロッキング・オン

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"Travel Sand" is a photobook of actress Yu Aoi, photographed by Japanese photographer Yoko Takahashi. Takahashi is known for her soft tones that utilize natural light and her perspective that captures the atmosphere and flow of time in travel destinations, developing portraits that do not separate the person from the landscape. In this book, Yu Aoi, who was attracting attention in the mid-2000s, is the subject, and her presence in places slightly removed from everyday life is captured. Rather than emphasizing carefully constructed staging, the composition allows the figure to gently emerge through the way the body surrenders to the changing light and environment. By layering expressions and presences that change in response to the landscape, this book quietly questions the relationship between travel and portraiture within the format of a photobook. 5th printing.