[Signed book] Mikiya Takimoto Photobook "LUMIÈRE"

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Book title | "LUMIERE"
Author｜Mikiya Takimoto
Contribution | Mao Morita (Independent Researcher)
Book design by Yuri Suyama
Edited by Kaoru Mori (Seigensha)
Format: A4 variant / Hardcover
Number of pages｜248 pages
List price: 13,200 yen (12,000 yen)
Publisher: MT Gallery
Publisher: Seigensha Co., Ltd.

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Specification In early 2020, COVID-19 caused an explosive infection all over the world, forcing people to drastically reduce contact with others and confine themselves to limited spaces such as their homes. Mikiya Takimoto, who has made his living through photography, not only saw all of his commercial and advertising work, which usually involves large numbers of people, come to a halt, but he could no longer fly around the world to create his works using large equipment.
At that time, Takimoto came across some small rapeseed flowers blooming on a riverbank, and felt the same natural force as the powerful life force of the planet Earth that he had seen in the uninhabitable remote areas he had photographed, and began photographing wild flowers. He discovered the continuous moments of life in familiar flowers and plants, and after three years of exploring the "microcosm" that lives within them, he completed the LUMIERE (French for "light") series.
Takimoto also participated in an international photography festival in Kyoto in the fall of 2020, where he learned about "enyu" (a French word meaning that all things blend together completely and do not interfere with each other) and encountered the architecture and gardens of temples filled with tranquility. There, he felt that he was connected to the flow of time that continues from hundreds or thousands of years ago to the present day, and walked around various temples and photographed them in the form of PRIERE (French:
We have compiled a series titled “Prayer.”
In compiling this photo book, we paid particular attention to the paper and printing. For the main text, we used Vent Nouveau, a high-quality printing paper that combines the opposing properties of printability and paper texture, and the cover is covered with cloth, with a title label and foil stamping. We added gloss varnish to the four standard colors to print in five colors, reproducing the colors of the works as much as possible.
Please take a look at his new photo books, "LUMIERE" and "PRIERE," his first in about 10 years, which contemplate the cycle of life and the coexistence of living things with the planet Earth.
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"LUMIERE"
I crouched down to get closer to the flowers and insects' viewpoint, and as I looked through the viewfinder, I saw living things dancing desperately in search of light beneath the sunlight filtering through the trees. With my movement restricted, I headed towards a "microcosm" that exists all around me. I realized that if I looked closely, even in a small world, there was an infinite expanse like the universe.
Mikiya Takimoto - Excerpt from Afterword

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