Publisher/Selek Limited

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"Interlude" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Yuki Kumagai. After studying under photographer Osamu Yokonami, Kumagai became independent and has worked in a wide range of fields, including fashion brand campaigns, magazines, advertisements, and artist portraits. At the same time, he has continued to photograph in places away from commercial demands, and this book, published about 10 years after he started photography, can be considered an early culmination of these private practices. Diverse motifs such as the lines and textures of the human body, the surface of rippling water, the hazy beach, the figures of children, crowds, wrinkled hands, constellations, and babies are not reduced to a clear narrative, but are quietly connected like fragmented memories. As the title "Interlude" suggests, this book does not declare a beginning or end of anything, but can be said to be a record that captures the sensations and atmospheres that emerge in the changing passage of time. While resonating with the photographic expression that emphasizes personal experience and sensation seen in Japanese photography since the 2000s, it evokes the viewer's own memories and emotions by maintaining the anonymity of the subjects. This is an important collection of works that showcases Yuki Kumagai's current position, where the sophistication cultivated as a commercial photographer intersects with the delicate sensibility of his personal gaze.