Semear

by Rinko Kawauchi (Photographer)

2008年、ブラジルの日系移民の人々が初めてブラジルの地を踏んでから100年になります。サンパウロ近代美術館（MAM）との100周年共同プロジェクトにより、２年間計3回の渡伯を経て、撮影はブラジル各地の日系社会だけにとどまらず、川内 倫子はいくつもの大自然とそこに棲む生き物、人々の生活やカーニバルまでを撮り下ろしました。

サンパウロ、ベレン、トメアスー、カンピーナス、ロンドリーナ、イグアス、パンタナール、ボニート、リオ・デ・ジャネイロ、サンルイス、レンソイエス・マラニャンセス……ブラジルでの一瞬一瞬が、圧倒するほどのエネルギーを含みながら、時には懐しく、そして美しく繊細に刻まれています。異なる人種や文化、貧富の差、ハレと ケ、それぞれが濃密に混ざり合う国。混沌の中に沸き上がる生命のリズム。そこにはブラジルで見つけた川内倫子の新境地が広がっています。

Genres: Photography, Japan

184 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Rinko Kawauchi is a contemporary Japanese photographer known for her lyrical images of elemental subjects. Based in the Shinto religion as well as the works of Irving Penn, Kawauchi’s photographs capture ordinary moments with a profound almost hallucinatory perspective. “From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth,” she has mused. “I want imagination in the photographs I take. It’s like a prologue. You wonder, ‘What’s going on?’ You feel something is going to happen.”

Born on April 6, 1972 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, she began pursuing photography while attending the Seian College of Art and Design in Osaka during the early 1990s. Working mainly in advertising for a number of years after graduating, Kawauchi published her first photo book in 2001 and went on to release several others, including Illuminance (2011), Ametsuchi (2013), and Halo (2017). She currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Today, Kawauchi’s works are held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, among others.