Title: Winter to Spring
Artist: Risaku Suzuki
AKAAKA
25.5 x 19.2 cm
68 pages
Hardcover
Design by Yuri Suyama
Japanese & English
June 2022
ISBN: 978-4-86541-148-5
It may be that to create something is to draw 'life' out of the world. Painting, sculpture, performance, film, music, writing, and many other forms of expression all share one thing in common: they are responses to "life" that the artist encountered and was moved by.
Photographers are generally expected to show how they interpreted the scene or what meaning they found in the subject, but for me, photography is a response to the world I encountered, and my aim is for the captured scene to be remembered anew by the viewer. I do not look "to take photographs". First comes the surprise and joy of encounter in what I see, and then there is the taking of the photograph. The subject of my works is to express the purity of the camera lens.
- Risaku Suzuki
It may be that to create something is to draw 'life' out of the world. Painting, sculpture, performance, film, music, writing, and many other forms of expression all share one thing in common: they are responses to "life" that the artist encountered and was moved by.
Photographers are generally expected to show how they interpreted the scene or what meaning they found in the subject, but for me, photography is a response to the world I encountered, and my aim is for the captured scene to be remembered anew by the viewer. I do not look "to take photographs". First comes the surprise and joy of encounter in what I see, and then there is the taking of the photograph. The subject of my works is to express the purity of the camera lens.
- Risaku Suzuki
