Publisher/KULA

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"Fishing" is a photobook by photographer Keiko Sasaoka (1978-), who has consistently explored the relationship between landscape and time, starting from the history and memories etched into the land of Hiroshima. Having participated in photographers' gallery since its establishment in 2001, and deepening her gaze on the memories and topography of the land through works such as "PARK CITY" and "EQUIVALENT," Sasaoka expands her perspective to the coastlines of the Japanese archipelago with this work. This series, which was photographed from 2001 to 2012 while walking and following fishermen in Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, the Boso Peninsula, the Miura Peninsula, the Kii Peninsula, Okinawa Island, Miyakejima, and other places, is a reconstruction of a long-term project that has unfolded under different names such as "Study," "Limit," "Water Area," and "Cape." The fishermen are not the main subjects, but exist in the frame as guides leading the photographer to the boundary between sea and land, and beyond that, the time of the land where human activities and nature intersect quietly unfolds. This is not simply a collection of photographs of seaside landscapes, but an attempt to decipher the land's memory and topography by walking along the periphery of the Japanese archipelago. It is an important book that reveals the core of Keiko Sasaoka's work, which would later lead to "Remembrance" and "SHORELINE." The dust jacket is missing.