Rinko KawauchiReseñas

This is difficult to review, I need to spend more time with this book and in general with Kawauchi photographs. She is so good at looking at everyday life with a lyrical and poetical (for lack of better words) sight. And she's so good at photographing nature without fear of reproducing stereotypes and without fear of indulging in blurred or out of focus pictures (and even so many close-ups). She's definitely got a personal style. I'm not so sure about her telling style and above all about the often too simple editing structure of the book proceeding with coupled images (left right page of the book). And the books sometimes feels overcrowded with images. But, as I wrote in the beginning, I need to spend more time with this book.
PS: this Aperture's edition is beautiful.

Beautiful and serene, Kawauchis postcard series of marine creatures swimming in Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Japan, is a feast for the eyes. Majun in Okinawa dialect means be together.

Beautiful and serene, Kawauchis postcard series of marine creatures swimming in Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Japan, is a feast for the eyes. Majun in Okinawa dialect means be together.

The memories of people beloved and protected by adults around them as they grew up, it won't fade away - The works in "Cui Cui" are memories of Rinko's family which she has been shooting for 13 years.There are scenes of, family gathering in New Year's Holidays, wedding of older brother, grandfather's death, birth of a new life, and so on.Ordinaries of life pile up in the normal family. The photographs evoke the scenery of hometown with smell of people and earth.Repeating the encounter and separation, the family will keep alive in one's memory.It could be your family album, which will stir a memory of days gone by.

Most of this is pretty incohesive and ugly to me, but amidst all of the quasi-instagram filters and mediocrity a few genuinely compelling images shine through, carrying with them Kawauchi's strange, slightly off-kilter charms.