Yoshiyuki Okuyama Photo Collection "Flowers"

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Book Design: Kaoru Kasai and Yuki Adachi
Size: H261mm x W216mm
Page: 152 pages
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Published in May 2021
ISBN: 9784865411348

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Specification This series, which Yoshiyuki Okuyama has been taking photographs of for many years, was shot in the house where his late grandmother lived. Okuyama now uses this place as his own studio, and as he photographs the flowers, he is reminded of the light streaming in and the plants swaying in the garden, and of the few conversations he had with his grandmother when she was alive.

The flowers, photographed on a small roll of 110 film (One Ten film), the same type of film used by his grandfather in the 1980s, blend in with the room's classic design and curtains, and are captivating with the free perspectives and angles from which the flowers are photographed.
In particular, he uses the painterly motif of the window to impress with the fluidity and freshness of the exterior and the dimness of the interior, superimposing himself and his grandmother in his gaze from inside to outside and his fluctuating perspective as he approaches the flowers in the light. The flowers reflected in the window and the flowers here. The flowers in the room on either side of the window and the flowers in the garden. Photographing flowers opens up countless dialogues.

Woven into this flow are photographs of spaces such as kitchens, studies, and bedrooms, producing heterogeneous perspectives. Using a variety of cameras, including large-format contact sheets, medium-format cameras, 35mm, and Polaroid cameras, the photographs seem to reveal the perspectives of her grandmother when she was alive, her late grandmother's drifting perspective, and her own.
The overlapping gazes in a single photograph, and the layers of perspectives throughout the entire work, can be seen as a major endeavor in "flowers."

The gradation of time, with old family albums, the house and furniture that belonged to my grandmother, and the flowers blooming today, all blended together in one volume, is also expressed in the format and method of the photographs. On the one hand, there is a format that has existed since my grandmother was alive, on the other hand, there are scanned contact sheets and still images extracted from video footage. The depth of "flowers" and the mixture of gazes and sensations are imbued with a wide range of time and history.

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