SIX TEN

SIX TEN

日本語 /  Six Ten is a series of photographs taken by the author during her stay at the Cité Radieuse in Marseille, France.

 48 pg, 13.5 x 18 cm, b/w risograph, staple bound
23.5 x 34.5 cm insert, b/w risograph, folded
numbered edition of 50, 2013.

My booklet is now available to order from Booklet Press - here.

SIX TEN

Excited to show these photos of my booklet SIX TEN in the process of being printed at Booklet press.
It will be available to order from their website at the end of next week.

second harvest

Thanks for all your comments about the exhibition. It would've been such a superb evening if all of you had been there. Maybe one day we'll all get the chance to meet up in one place somewhere!

All the proceeds from the show will be going here.

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My thoughts are with the people of Japan.

photographies du japon

I'll be showing some images from Japan at a bar in Montpellier over the next couple of weeks. If anyone is close enough to be able to, please come down for a drink this Thursday 10th of March. I'll be around from about 8ish.

En visite au Japon en 2010, j'ai été subjuguée par l'esthétique portée au quotidien. Le moindre détail est valorisé et célébré. En tant que photographe, je m'intéresse à la capture des fragments, aux nuances les plus infimes, aux textures, aux instants fugitifs. Pour mes recherches le Japon est un lieu privilégié. J'ai promené mes appareils entre Osaka et Kyoto, j'en ai ramené ces photographies.

Ce ne sont pas des portraits, mais plutôt des instantanés obliques, pris sur le vif, pour mieux saisir "les petits moments". On peut dire qu'il s'agit d'images de surfaces. Surfaces de choses cachés, de traces. Un Japon, dont je n'ai fait qu'effleurer la surface.


By the way Astrid kindly asked me to be part of her 'Why Do you Shoot Film Series'.
Take a look here & read the contributions by lots of creative photographers.

out of focus

Some blurry mistakes from Japan.
Feeling slightly hazy myself these days.

People watching in Gion district, Kyoto

食べる

soba noddles

unagi (smoked eel)

japanese tea

dumplings

green tea ice-cream

& cucumbers on a stick!

Osaka aquarium

thé vert partout

Being in Japan, Nakamura Toukiti is a green tea ice-cream parlour at Kyoto's train station. My parfait was made up of green tea jelly & ice-cream, red bean paste, rice bubbles, cream and a few things i couldn't recognise. It took my taste buds a little while to get used to the toned down sweetness but in the end, as with most things in Japan, i was won over by it's sheer gorgeousness.

on tatami

Not so long ago, I'm ashamed to admit, I hadn't heard of the word tatami.
But after a night sleeping on tatami mats in Japan, I was completely sold on the concept. In fact i really, really like the whole concept of tatami mats. I like the fact that each region in Japan has particluar sized tatami and the way traditionally a room was built according to a specific number of tatami mats.
I especailly like how each morning you neatly fold up your bedding and store it in a cupboard, to be brought out again in the evening. Voila, you have an instant living room; a rearranged space, tidy and serene.

I've always liked the idea of using the same space in different ways and also changing room layouts. As a child I used to be constantly rearranging my bedroom furniture. In fact I also really quite like the feeling of being in a new apartment before all the boxes have been unpacked and all the living spaces have been defined. I'm not so keen on change in general but I do quite like room changes.

sushi time

This was Yo Sushi with a difference. The real McHoy and super cheap. Those in the know ordered fresh plates, rather than grabbing them off the conveyor belt. Freshness was paramount, as was beer!

the philosopher's walk

The Philosopher's walk in Kyoto is so named after a philosophy professor - Nishida Kitaro, who used to walk along this cherry tree lined canal for his daily constitutional.
We started at the Ginkaku-ji (Silver temple) end and wandered down until hunger got the better of us and we stopped for a bowl of noddles & tofu - a specialty of this part of Kyoto.
Although it must be spectacular during sakura season, we really enjoyed the quietness, incredible greens of the trees in early summer, little cafés & shops and glimpses through doorways along the way.

Hiki recently did the same walk. You can see it through her eyes here.