
The Netherlands × Chiba: Taking Photographs, Telling Stories
- Publisher
- Akaaka Art Publishing
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-216-1
- Specifications
- Softcover
Double-sided jacket
257 x 182 mm
224 pages
Edited by Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art and Contact Co., Ltd.
Texts by Yuki Shimizu, Akihiro Kodera, Tsuyoshi Kaizuka, Aki Hirokawa and Sai Ishida
An exhibition catalogue pairing two photographic worlds: a Dutch part by the young duo Sarah van Rij and David van der Leeuw, who use reflections and shadows to project dreamlike city scenes with vague outlines and walk cities like flâneurs to capture the unstaged and almost undefinable elements of the place, and a Chiba part by the photographer and novelist Yuki Shimizu, developed around the themes of reflection and inheritance of views. The Dutch part opens from the left and the Chiba part from the right of the same volume. Everyday scenes turn into unexpected images through reflections and projected shadows, a vein that continues in the series Still Life, made at home during lockdown.