SWISS | Yurie Nagashima | Aka Aka 2024 [THIRD PRINTING] Atelier the personal and the collective

the personal and the collective

this collection of singular monochrome images immortalizes a Japan that once was

Only one copy left with "The girl leaning against the café doorway" cover

Hajime Kimura has created and exhibited powerful and poetic black-and-white photographs of matters and existence that are little known or forgotten in Japanese society

SWISS | Yurie Nagashima | Aka Aka 2024 [THIRD PRINTING] Atelier the personal and the collective"In 2007, Nagashima participated in an artists residence program in the Village Nomade of Switzerland and the photographs she made at that time are reproduced in this volume, which are of flowers along with views of her residence and her son. The images were inspired by a set of flower photographs she found in a box of her recently deceased grandfather's home. The photographs in that box were made by her grandmother twenty five years prior.