Blue Affair | Kosuke Okahara | The Backyard 2020 [SIGNED]

Blue Affair | Kosuke Okahara | The Backyard 2020 [SIGNED]blue affair is an experimental shortfilm and a photobook based on the photographers dreams of his time spent in the town called Koza. In the pictures captured in Koza by Kosuke Okahara, I dont see the photographer. Its not because he was the one photographing, or for some other physical reasons. I dont find superficial emotions emanating through his lens from either the subjects or from the photographer. This might not make sense, but it feels to me

This monograph

Here we have a masterfully sequenced compilation of photographs by various authors issued on Hiroshima day in 1972

"Intimate Puzzle

along the Pacific coast of Japan

not consciously regarding the viewer

solidarity and the spirit of independence

shining within the landscape

Ryu isn't satisfied by simply capturing the subject using her camera

The inside of the volume has stains in particular on the first and last pages and generally dirt throughout the volume due to the impression of the images on the opposite white pages

a snowy town and a snap shot from a cat lover’s perspective

"In the small space of a garden

"What differentiates Mark Steinmetz’s photographs from that of his contemporaries is the exceptional and elusive capacity to make images that are beautiful