Title: PHOTOGRAPHY 写真
Artist: Koji Kitagawa
Area Books, 2021
BLACK PRINT ON BLUE/GREEN PAPER, 752 images in black and white and the 48 last images in colors
150 x 210 mm
800 pages
First edition of 250 copies
ISBN: 9782493509000
Koji Kitagawa has been a member of the SPEW collective with Daisuke Yokota et Naohiro Utagawa, an experience he describes as "being in a car launched at full speed". Since 15 years, Koji Kitagawa, on his own, has been producing series that he distributes in the form of simple, plain editions. This book is an anthology compiling his obsessive series one after the other.
Koji's words: "In creating, I get a lot from the process itself. If the image is complete before I’ve fully worked on it, it doesn’t hold much meaning for me. I’m always advancing several projects little by little, I want to remove my intent from the work as much as possible; ambiguity is an essential component. I think photography is imagination."
- From the publisher’s website
Koji Kitagawa has been a member of the SPEW collective with Daisuke Yokota et Naohiro Utagawa, an experience he describes as "being in a car launched at full speed". Since 15 years, Koji Kitagawa, on his own, has been producing series that he distributes in the form of simple, plain editions. This book is an anthology compiling his obsessive series one after the other.
Koji's words: "In creating, I get a lot from the process itself. If the image is complete before I’ve fully worked on it, it doesn’t hold much meaning for me. I’m always advancing several projects little by little, I want to remove my intent from the work as much as possible; ambiguity is an essential component. I think photography is imagination."
- From the publisher’s website
