Japanese Photographer / artist Rinko Kawauchi captures the beauty of ordinary moments which we often ignore. She speakes quietly of the profundity of quotidian things. Kawauchi has become one of the most celebrated japanese photographers of her generation. Kawauchi’s themes of family, human interaction with nature and the cycle of life are photographed in pastel colours. Her work reveals exquisite delicacy, achieved through sensate compositions, a careful attention to texture and the cultivation of a beautifully clear, clean often whitish light. She interweaves sensitized ways of perceiving the world around her, with the fleeting conflations of forms that make you wonder how one photographer mangaged to be present, attuned and ready to photograph so many pungent observations. Once Rinko Kawauchi said: ” For a photographer, it’s a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take a photograph, it is not all done. I continue to work on it.” She suggests that the editing and presentation of the work is as important to the final image as composing and taking the photograph itself. At times she presented her work alongside her own Haiku poetry. Born in Shiga, Japan, she lives and works in Tokyo. In 2001 she simultaneously released a series of three photographic books – UTATANE, HANABI, HANAKO from Little More publisher, which created an overnight sensation in the photography world in Japan. Her unique approach of “drawing senses” and consistent motif of every day details, as well as circulation of life and its transience has been admired from the art lovers all over the world. For more information, more pictures or to get in touch with her, we invite you to follow the link bellow the shots we 5elect here, just to give you an idea about the wunderful work of Rinko Kawauchi.
