A circle drawn on paper
A circle of fireworks in the night
The house made of blocks
The face of a house
A child's hand
A mannequin's hand
A shell in a book
A child with eyes closed

All arranged like a catalog

The fake and the real
The real and the fake
The big is small
The small is big
Living and dead
Dead and alive
Becoming a symbol
Taking shape
Becoming a photograph

―Kentaro Kase


This photobook presents photographs accumulated over a decade, arranged non-chronologically in an essayistic flow. Regardless of subject, photographs taken from the same posture seem to strip the subjects of their explanatory meaning through the very act of capturing them. It is the culmination of his experiments and search for ways to create his own work within the time spent with his family, by photographer Kentarō Kase, well known for his essays and family photographs.